sbig5(5) — Macro Packages and Conventions
NAME
sbig5 − 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 follows:
| Big-5 (2nd byte) | Character Symbol | Shift Big-5 (2nd byte) | Character Symbol |
| 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. Refer to the iconv_intro(5) reference page for information about codeset conversion.
SEE ALSO
Commands: locale(1)
Others: ascii(5), big5(5), Chinese(5), dechanyu(5), dechanzi(5), eucTW(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5), l10n_intro(5), telecode(5)