| Unicode Code Point | GB18030 Encoding | | --- | --- | | U+4E00 | 0x8130 |

As Unicode gained traction in the 1990s and early 2000s, a new problem emerged: . The world was full of old data stuck in those older, regional encodings. How do you move a massive database from a proprietary IBM mainframe encoding (like EBCDIC) into modern Unicode without losing data?