freebsd man page for big5

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.
     Characters from the ASCII character set are represented as single bytes in the range 0x00 - 0x7F.	Traditional Chinese characters are repre-
     sented 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)

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