- 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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.\" $FreeBSD$
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-.Dd August 7, 2003
+.Dd September 12, 2019
.Dt BIG5 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Qq BIG5
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Dq Big Five
-is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text.
+is a standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text.
Each character is represented by either one or two bytes.
Characters from the
.Tn ASCII
.Xr euc 5 ,
.Xr gb18030 5 ,
.Xr utf8 5
+.Sh BUGS
+The range of the second byte overlaps some ASCII characters, including
+0x5C (`\\') and 0x7C (`|') which may cause problems in program execution or
+display.
+Big5 is considered a legacy standard and only preserved for backward
+compatibility reason.
+New documents and systems are suggested using UTF-8 directly.