18ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Tim J. Robbins 28ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" All rights reserved. 38ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" 48ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 58ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 68ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" are met: 78ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 88ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 98ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 108ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 118ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 128ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" 138ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 148ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 158ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 168ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 178ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 188ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 198ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 208ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 218ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 228ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 238ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 248ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" 258ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.\" $FreeBSD$ 26b9384efcSRuslan Ermilov.\" 27*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen Hsu.Dd September 12, 2019 288ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Dt BIG5 5 298ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Os 308ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Sh NAME 318ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Nm big5 32b9384efcSRuslan Ermilov.Nd 33b9384efcSRuslan Ermilov.Dq "Big Five" 34b9384efcSRuslan Ermilovencoding for Traditional Chinese text 358ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Sh SYNOPSIS 368ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Nm ENCODING 378ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Qq BIG5 388ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Sh DESCRIPTION 398ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Dq Big Five 40*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen Hsuis a standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text. 418ca5fa51STim J. RobbinsEach character is represented by either one or two bytes. 428ca5fa51STim J. RobbinsCharacters from the 438ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Tn ASCII 448ca5fa51STim J. Robbinscharacter set are represented as single bytes in the range 0x00 - 0x7F. 458ca5fa51STim J. RobbinsTraditional Chinese characters are represented by two bytes: 468ca5fa51STim J. Robbinsthe first in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the range 478ca5fa51STim J. Robbins0x40 - 0xFE. 488ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Sh SEE ALSO 498962b7a5STim J. Robbins.Xr euc 5 , 508ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Xr gb18030 5 , 518ca5fa51STim J. Robbins.Xr utf8 5 52*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen Hsu.Sh BUGS 53*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen HsuThe range of the second byte overlaps some ASCII characters, including 54*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen Hsu0x5C (`\\') and 0x7C (`|') which may cause problems in program execution or 55*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen Hsudisplay. 56*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen HsuBig5 is considered a legacy standard and only preserved for backward 57*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen Hsucompatibility reason. 58*5d1f74b6SLi-Wen HsuNew documents and systems are suggested using UTF-8 directly. 59