big5(5)
NAME
big5 - ``Big Five'' encoding for Traditional Chinese text
SYNOPSIS
ENCODING "BIG5"
DESCRIPTION
- ``Big Five'' is the de facto standard for encoding Tradi
- tional 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 rep - resented by two
bytes: the first in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the - range 0x40 0xFE.
SEE ALSO
- euc(5), gb18030(5), utf8(5)
- BSD August 7, 2003