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 ALSO
euc(5), gb18030(5), utf8(5)
BSD August 7, 2003 BSD
Mac OS X 10.8 - Generated Sat Sep 1 10:11:18 CDT 2012