NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     big5 -- ``Big Five'' encoding for Traditional Chinese text

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     ENCODING "BIG5"

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     ``Big Five'' is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese
     text.  Each character is represented by either one or two bytes.  Characters
 from the ASCII character set are represented as single bytes in the
     range 0x00 - 0x7F.  Traditional Chinese characters are represented by two
     bytes: the first in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the range 0x40 -
     0xFE.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     euc(5), gb18030(5), utf8(5)


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