1.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Tim J. Robbins 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd April 1, 2020 26.Dt BIG5 5 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm big5 30.Nd 31.Dq "Big Five" 32encoding for Traditional Chinese text 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm ENCODING 35.Qq BIG5 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37.Dq Big Five 38is a standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text. 39Each character is represented by either one or two bytes. 40Characters from the ASCII character set are represented as 41single bytes in the range 0x00 - 0x7F. 42Traditional Chinese characters are represented by two bytes: 43the first in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the range 440x40 - 0xFE. 45.Sh SEE ALSO 46.Xr euc 5 , 47.Xr gb18030 5 , 48.Xr utf8 5 49.Sh BUGS 50The range of the second byte overlaps some ASCII characters, including 510x5C 52.Pq Ql \e 53and 0x7C 54.Pq Ql | 55which may cause problems in program execution or 56display. 57Big5 is considered a legacy standard and only preserved for backward 58compatibility reason. 59New documents and systems are suggested using UTF-8 directly. 60