is a small command-line application which allows you to read GB or BIG5 text in a non-Chinese Windows edition.
GB is the computer standard of Mainland China's Simplified Chinese, and BIG5 is the computer standard of Taiwan's Traditional Chinese.
The program includes a built-in Chinese GB font data, and can be used to read GB or BIG5 texts in any language edition of Windows.
GBView's features include: the ability to view both GB and ASCII text; BIG5 text viewing in a simplified Chinese font; BIG5 files convertion to GB format; and up to 32,768 lines of viewing.
GBView runs on
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 526 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
File Viewing.
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