Improve the description of big5(5)
- Fix the statement that big5 is a de facto standard of Traditional Chinese text [1] - Add a BUGS section describes the problem of big5 and suggests use utf8 PR: 189095 Submitted by: Brennan Vincent <brennan@umanwizard.com> [1] Reviewed by: Ting-Wei Lan <lantw44@gmail.com> MFC after: 3 days Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21622
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd August 7, 2003
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.Dd September 12, 2019
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.Dt BIG5 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ encoding for Traditional Chinese text
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.Qq BIG5
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Dq Big Five
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is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text.
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is a standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text.
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Each character is represented by either one or two bytes.
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Characters from the
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.Tn ASCII
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.Xr euc 5 ,
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.Xr gb18030 5 ,
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.Xr utf8 5
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.Sh BUGS
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The range of the second byte overlaps some ASCII characters, including
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0x5C (`\\') and 0x7C (`|') which may cause problems in program execution or
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display.
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Big5 is considered a legacy standard and only preserved for backward
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compatibility reason.
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New documents and systems are suggested using UTF-8 directly.
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