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sbig5

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NAME

sbig5 - A character encoding system (codeset) for Traditional Chinese  

DESCRIPTION

The Shift Big-5 (sbig5) codeset is a variant of the Big-5 codeset (see big5(5)). The only difference between these codesets is that the second byte of some Big-5 characters are mapped to different values in the Shift Big-5 codeset. The remapping is done to avoid having some metacharacters like *, which has special meaning to UNIX commands, in the second byte of a 2-byte Big-5 character.

The mappings of Big-5 characters to Shift Big-5 characters are as follows:


Big-5 (2nd byte) Character Symbol Shift Big-5 (2nd byte) Character Symbol

40@300
5B[311
5C\322
5D]333
5E^344
5F-355
60`366
7B{377
7C|388
7D}399
7E~9Fnil

The sbig5 codeset is not supported by a locale but only through codeset conversion.
 

Codeset Conversion

The following codeset converter pairs are available for converting Traditional Chinese characters between sbig5 and other encoding formats. Refer to iconv_intro(5) for an introduction to codeset conversion. For more information about the other codeset for which sbig5 is the input or output, see the reference page specified in the list item. big5_sbig5, sbig5_big5

Converting from and to the Big-5 codeset: big5(5).
Note that Big-5 encoding is equivalent to the Microsoft code-page format used on PCs for Traditional Chinese. Therefore, you can use these converters to convert Traditional Chinese between PC code-page format and Shift Big-5 encoding. eucTW_sbig5, sbig5_eucTW
Converting from and to Taiwanese Extended UNIX Code: eucTW(5).
 

SEE ALSO

Commands: locale(1)

Others: ascii(5), big5(5), Chinese(5), code_page(5), dechanyu(5), dechanzi(5), eucTW(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5), l10n_intro(5), telecode(5)


 

Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
Codeset Conversion
SEE ALSO

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