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 represented by either one or two bytes. Charac‐
ters 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 ALSOeuc(5), gb18030(5), utf8(5)BSD August 7, 2003 BSD