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The following are common Chinese character encoding systems:
Guobiao is usually displayed using Simplified Characters and Big5 is usually displayed using Traditional Characters . There is however no mandated connection between the encoding system and the font used to display the characters; font and encoding are usually tied together for practical reasons. The conversion between traditional and simplified Chinese is usually problematic, because the simplification involves mapping many characters with different meaning and usage into a much simpler common writing. The traditional to simplified (many-to-one) conversion is technically simple. The opposite conversion often results in a data loss when converting to early forms of the GB character set (namely and Unicode which have separate code points for both simplified and traditional characters. One other issue is that many of the encoding systems are missing characters. While the missing characters are often literary and not commonly used in ordinary text, this does become a problem because people's names often contain these characters. An example of the problem is the Taiwan ese politician Wang Jian-Hsuan whose second given name is not in some character systems. But the newest GB standard, GB18030 has the complete character repertoire of Unicode 4.0, including the Unihan extensions in the Supplementary Ideographic Plane . The issue of which encoding to use can also have political implications, as GB is the official standard of the People's Republic Of China and Big5 is a '' De Facto '' standard of Taiwan . In contrast to the situation with Japanese , there has been relatively little overt opposition to Unicode , which solves many of the issues involved with GB and Big5. Unicode is widely regarded as politically neutral, has good support for both simplified and traditional characters, and can be easily converted to and from the GB and Big5. Furthermore Unicode has the advantage of not being limited only to Chinese, since it can also display many other character sets. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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