Big5
Sign in to saveBig-5 or Big5 () is a Chinese character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for traditional Chinese characters.
Key facts
- Character encoding.name
- Big5
- Character encoding.mime
- Big5
- Character encoding.alias
- Big-5, 大五碼
- Character encoding.by
- Institute for Information Industry
- Character encoding.lang
- Traditional Chinese, EnglishPartial support:Simplified Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian, some of IPA letters for phonetic usage.
- Character encoding.extends
- ASCII
- Character encoding.extensions
- Windows-950, Big5-HKSCS, numerous others
- Character encoding.classification
- Extended ASCII, variable-width encoding, DBCS, CJK encoding
- Character encoding.otherrelated
- CNS 11643
via Wikipedia infobox
~27 min read
Encyclopedic overview
27 sectionsContents
- Encoding
- A more detailed look at the organization
- Duplicates
- What a Big5 code actually encodes
- The Matching SBCS
- History
- Extensions
- Vendor extensions
- ETen extensions
- Microsoft code pages
- IBM code pages
- ChinaSea font
- 'Sakura' font
- Unicode-at-on
- OPG
- Official extensions
- Taiwan Ministry of Education font
- Taiwan Council of Agriculture font
- Big5+
- Big-5E
- Big5-2003
- CDP
- HKSCS
- Kana and Cyrillic
- See also
- References
- External links
Big-5 or Big5 () is a Chinese character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for traditional Chinese characters.
The People's Republic of China (PRC), which uses simplified Chinese characters, uses the GB 18030 character set instead (though it can also substitute Big-5 or UTF-8).
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