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5 StuartYeates 1 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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3 See also: charsets(7), charset(1), ascii(7) and unicode(7).
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8 In the corporate world, the Big 5 were the large accounting firms:
4 DavidHallett 9 * [Arthur Andersen|http://www.arthurandersen.com]
10 * [Deloitte & Touche|http://www.deloitte.com]
11 * [Ernst & Young|http://www.eyi.com]
12 * [KPMG|http://www.kpmg.com]
13 * [Price Waterhouse Coopers|http://www.pwcglobal.com]
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15 Whether Arthur Andersen should still be counted in the Big5 after the fallout from Enron is very dubious.