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BIG5(5)                     BSD File Formats Manual                    BIG5(5)

NAME
     big5 -- ``Big Five'' encoding for Traditional Chinese text

SYNOPSIS
     ENCODING "BIG5"

DESCRIPTION
     ``Big Five'' is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text.  Each character is repre-sented represented
     sented by either one or two bytes.  Characters from the ASCII character set are represented as single
     bytes in the range 0x00 - 0x7F.  Traditional Chinese characters are represented by two bytes: the first
     in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the range 0x40 - 0xFE.

SEE ALSO
     euc(5), gb18030(5), utf8(5)

BSD                             August 7, 2003                             BSD

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