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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd August 7, 2003
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.Dt BIG5 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm big5
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.Nd
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.Dq "Big Five"
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encoding for Traditional Chinese text
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm ENCODING
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.Qq BIG5
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Dq Big Five
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is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text.
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Each character is represented by either one or two bytes.
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Characters from the
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.Tn ASCII
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character set are represented as single bytes in the range 0x00 - 0x7F.
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Traditional Chinese characters are represented by two bytes:
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the first in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the range
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0x40 - 0xFE.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr euc 5 ,
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.Xr gb18030 5 ,
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.Xr utf8 5
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