BIG5(5)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1

✨ BIG5(5) ✨

okay so bestie, this is big5(5) from the File Formats Manual, and it’s literally all about the “Big Five” encoding for Traditional Chinese text. no cap, we’re doing bytes today. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

big5 — “Big Five” encoding for Traditional Chinese text.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ENCODING "BIG5"

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

“Big Five” is a standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text. Each character is represented by either one or two bytes, and that’s the whole vibe. 👑

Characters from the ASCII character set are represented as single bytes in the range 0x00 - 0x7F. slay. ✨

Traditional Chinese characters are represented by two bytes: the first byte is in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, and the second byte is in the range 0x40 - 0xFE. periodt. 💜

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read these besties, iykyk 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

bestie, this is the part where we hold hands. 🫶

The range of the second byte overlaps some ASCII characters, including 0x5C (\) and 0x7C (|), which may cause problems in program execution or display. that is not a cute look. 😭

Big5 is considered a legacy standard and only preserved for backward compatibility reason. New documents and systems are suggested using UTF-8 directly. fr fr, UTF-8 is the main character here. 👑

mwah 💋 — this one came from Debian, dated April 1, 2020, and it’s the BIG5(5) page. bye bestie! 🎀

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