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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" |
| | 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 |
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