Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:28:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r352793 - stable/12/lib/libc/locale Message-ID: <201909271528.x8RFS1as007430@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: lwhsu Date: Fri Sep 27 15:28:01 2019 New Revision: 352793 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352793 Log: MFC r352315: Improve the description of big5(5) - Fix the statement that big5 is a de facto standard of Traditional Chinese text [1] - Add a BUGS section describes the problem of big5 and suggests use utf8 PR: 189095 Submitted by: Brennan Vincent <brennan@umanwizard.com> [1] Reviewed by: Ting-Wei Lan <lantw44@gmail.com> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21622 Modified: stable/12/lib/libc/locale/big5.5 Directory Properties: stable/12/ (props changed) Modified: stable/12/lib/libc/locale/big5.5 ============================================================================== --- stable/12/lib/libc/locale/big5.5 Fri Sep 27 13:14:36 2019 (r352792) +++ stable/12/lib/libc/locale/big5.5 Fri Sep 27 15:28:01 2019 (r352793) @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 7, 2003 +.Dd September 12, 2019 .Dt BIG5 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ encoding for Traditional Chinese text .Qq BIG5 .Sh DESCRIPTION .Dq Big Five -is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text. +is a standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text. Each character is represented by either one or two bytes. Characters from the .Tn ASCII @@ -49,3 +49,10 @@ the first in the range 0xA1 - 0xFE, the second in the .Xr euc 5 , .Xr gb18030 5 , .Xr utf8 5 +.Sh BUGS +The range of the second byte overlaps some ASCII characters, including +0x5C (`\\') and 0x7C (`|') which may cause problems in program execution or +display. +Big5 is considered a legacy standard and only preserved for backward +compatibility reason. +New documents and systems are suggested using UTF-8 directly.
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