docs/189095: big5 manual page is inaccurate.

Brennan Vincent brennan at umanwizard.com
Tue Apr 29 03:10:00 UTC 2014


>Number:         189095
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       big5 manual page is inaccurate.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 29 03:10:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brennan Vincent
>Release:        10
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
The manual page states that "``Big Five'' is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text."

However, nowadays Unicode encodings like UTF-8 are often used, so it is incorrect to state that Big5 is the de-facto standard.

The first Taiwanese website I chose at random is encoded in UTF-8:  www.ltn.com.tw
>How-To-Repeat:
man 5 big5
>Fix:
Change the text "the de facto standard for encoding" to "a standard for encoding".

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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