sbig5 - A character encoding system (codeset) for Traditional
Chinese
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 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
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The sbig5 codeset is not supported by a locale but only
through codeset conversion.
Codeset Conversion [Toc] [Back]
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).
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_printing(5), iconv_intro(5),
l10n_intro(5), telecode(5)
sbig5(5)
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