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Big5 is a superset of US [ASCII] representing Chinese characters in 2 bytes. It is/was widely used in Taiwan, but is not [ISO2022] compliant. Unless there is a compelling reason not to, [Unicode] should be used in the place of Big5. |
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See also: charsets(7), charset(1), ascii(7) and unicode(7). |
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In the corporate world, the Big 5 were the large accounting firms: |
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* [Arthur Andersen|http://www.arthurandersen.com] |
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* [Deloitte & Touche|http://www.deloitte.com] |
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* [Ernst & Young|http://www.eyi.com] |
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* [KPMG|http://www.kpmg.com] |
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* [Price Waterhouse Coopers|http://www.pwcglobal.com] |
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Whether Arthur Andersen should still be counted in the Big5 after the fallout from Enron is very dubious. |