Big5

Big5
MIME / IANA	Big5
Alias(es)	Big-5, 大五碼
Language(s)	Traditional Chinese, English; Partial support:; Simplified Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian, some of IPA letters for phonetic usage.
Created by	Institute for Information Industry
Classification	Extended ASCII, variable-width encoding, DBCS, CJK encoding
Extends	ASCII
Extensions	Windows-950, Big5-HKSCS, numerous others
Other related encoding(s)	CNS 11643
	Not in the strictest sense of the term, as ASCII bytes can appear as trail bytes.; Big5 does not specify a single-byte component; however, ASCII (or an extension) is used in practice.;

Big-5 or Big5 (Chinese: 大五碼) 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.

Big5 gets its name from the consortium of five companies in Taiwan that developed it.

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