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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 3:15:47 am by StuartYeates
Older page: version 4 Last edited on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 11:16:53 am by DavidHallett Revert
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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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- Unless there is a compelling reason not to, [Unicode] should be used in the place of Big5. 
+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). 
  
-However, in the corporate world, the Big 5 are the large accounting firms: 
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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.