sbig5(5)sbig5(5)NAMEsbig5 - 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 fol‐
lows:
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Big-5 (2nd Character Symbol Shift Big-5 (2nd Character Symbol
byte) byte)
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
40 @ 30 0
5B [ 31 1
5C \ 32 2
5D ] 33 3
5E ^ 34 4
5F - 35 5
60 ` 36 6
7B { 37 7
7C | 38 8
7D } 39 9
7E ~ 9F nil
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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 Tra‐
ditional 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), GB18030(5), GBK(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_print‐
ing(5), iconv_intro(5), l10n_intro(5), telecode(5)sbig5(5)