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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, January 5, 2004 11:39:15 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
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-Big5 is (
was?) the most-
used charset (computer text character set
) in Taiwan
(for Chinese characters
).
+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
).
