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)
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