3.3.5.1.3 Simplified Chinese Identifiers

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VBA support for identifiers containing Simplified Chinese characters is based upon Windows Codepage 936 [UNICODE-BESTFIT]. Simplified Chinese characters are encoded as 16 bit double byte characters with code points beginning at %x8140. The Unicode equivalents of Windows Codepage 936 code points are specified by the file bestfit936.txt provided at [UNICODE-BESTFIT].

A <CP936-initial-character> MAY be any Unicode character that corresponds to defined code points in the following ranges of Windows Codepage 936 code points: %xA3C1-A3DA; %xA3E1-A3FA; %xA1A2A1AA; %xA1AC-A1AD; %xA1B2-A1E6; %xA1E8-A1EF; %xA2B1-A2FC; %xA4A1-FE4F.

A <CP936-subsequent-character> is defined identically to <CP949-initial-character> with the addition of code point %xA3DF and code points in the range %xA3B0-A3B9.