Talk:Big5
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http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/multling/codes.htm has gone 404. I wasn't able to find a replacement. -- Anon, July 2003
- Thanks. Link fixed by going to http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz & follow the new site. --Menchi 20:17 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
So, what *is* Big5, i.e., what characters does it map and how does it map them? The other pages on encodings seem to at least list what character ranges they can represent, and for the smaller (8-bit) ones a complete table.
... I Googled for a bit, but couldn't turn up a spec. I did find out it uses 8- or 16-bit characters. Playing with iconv seems to indicate it's a superset of ASCII. Can anybody do better?
I have added description of the coding structure. - Gniw 04:41, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)