Editing Chinese character encoding (section)

== Big5 ==

{{main|Big5|Big5-HKSCS}}The Big5 family of character encodings start with the initial definition by the consortium of five companies in Taiwan that developed it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chinesemac.org/pages/character_sets.html|title=[chinese mac] Character Sets|website=chinesemac.org|access-date=2016-10-13}}</ref> It is a [[double-byte character set|double-byte character set (DBCS)]] somehow similar to [[Shift JIS]], often combined with a MBCS like [[ASCII]]. Quite a few vendors as well as official extensions exist, of which ETEN, [[HKSCS]] (Hong Kong) and Big5-2003 (as a part of [[CNS 11643]] by Taiwan) are the most well-known ones.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moztw.org/docs/big5/|title=Big5 Variants in Mozilla: Mozilla 系列與 Big5 中文字碼|website=moztw.org|access-date=2016-10-13}}</ref> [[PostScript fonts#Adobe-CNS1|Adobe-CNS1]] is the PostScript charset corresponding to the Big5 family of encodings.