Big5

Big-5 or Big5 () is a Chinese character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for traditional Chinese characters.

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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

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native label: 大五碼

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Contents

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).