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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.
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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.
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:
+* [Arthur Andersen|http://www.arthurandersen.com]
+* [Deloitte & Touche|http://www.deloitte.com]
+* [Ernst & Young|http://www.eyi.com]
+* [KPMG|http://www.kpmg.com]
+* [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.
