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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Tim J. Robbins |
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| 25 | .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/locale/big5.5,v 1.3 2004/07/05 06:36:36 ru Exp $ | |
| 26 | .\" | |
| 27 | .Dd August 7, 2003 | |
| 28 | .Dt BIG5 5 | |
| 29 | .Os | |
| 30 | .Sh NAME | |
| 31 | .Nm big5 | |
| 32 | .Nd | |
| 33 | .Dq "Big Five" | |
| 34 | encoding for Traditional Chinese text | |
| 35 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
| 36 | .Nm ENCODING | |
| 37 | .Qq BIG5 | |
| 38 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| 39 | .Dq Big Five | |
| 40 | is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text. | |
| 41 | Each character is represented by either one or two bytes. | |
| 42 | Characters from the | |
| 43 | .Tn ASCII | |
| 44 | character set are represented as single bytes in the range 0x00 - 0x7F. | |
| 45 | Traditional Chinese characters are represented by two bytes: | |
| 46 | the first in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the range | |
| 47 | 0x40 - 0xFE. | |
| 48 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 49 | .Xr euc 5 , | |
| 50 | .Xr gb18030 5 , | |
| 51 | .Xr utf8 5 |