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25.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/locale/big5.5,v 1.3 2004/07/05 06:36:36 ru Exp $
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27.Dd August 7, 2003
28.Dt BIG5 5
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm big5
32.Nd
33.Dq "Big Five"
34encoding for Traditional Chinese text
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Nm ENCODING
37.Qq BIG5
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39.Dq Big Five
40is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text.
41Each character is represented by either one or two bytes.
42Characters from the
43.Tn ASCII
44character set are represented as single bytes in the range 0x00 - 0x7F.
45Traditional Chinese characters are represented by two bytes:
46the first in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the range
470x40 - 0xFE.
48.Sh SEE ALSO
49.Xr euc 5 ,
50.Xr gb18030 5 ,
51.Xr utf8 5