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 Fix: Change the text "the de facto standard for encoding" to "a standard for encoding". How-To-Repeat: man 5 big5
I=92m not sure how authoritative this site is, but it seems to back up = my claim that UTF-8 is commonly used: http://w3techs.com/technologies/segmentation/cl-zh-/character_encoding=
Big5 is still used by some old services that cannot be easily converted, but most new things use UTF-8.
Created attachment 206132 [details] patch fixing the wording
I have added an attachment correcting the (increasingly) inaccurate wording.
A commit references this bug: Author: lwhsu Date: Sat Sep 14 08:15:17 UTC 2019 New revision: 352315 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352315 Log: 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> MFC after: 3 days Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21622 Changes: head/lib/libc/locale/big5.5
A commit references this bug: Author: lwhsu Date: Fri Sep 27 15:28:01 UTC 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 Changes: _U stable/12/ stable/12/lib/libc/locale/big5.5
A commit references this bug: Author: lwhsu Date: Fri Sep 27 15:28:31 UTC 2019 New revision: 352794 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352794 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 Changes: _U stable/11/ stable/11/lib/libc/locale/big5.5