Character Encoding: Big5

Technical information about character encoding standard Big5

Technical information about character encoding Big5 is available below.

Name	General Big5 Detailed Big5 (Traditional Chinese)
MIME / IANA	Big5
Type	1 to 2 bytes (variable-width)
Languages	Chinese
Usage	less than 0.1%

The Big5 is a character encoding standard for Traditional Chinese characters. It utilizes a variable-width, multi-byte encoding scheme.

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