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Index: lib/libc/locale/big5.5
===================================================================
--- lib/libc/locale/big5.5
+++ lib/libc/locale/big5.5
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd August 7, 2003
+.Dd September 12, 2019
.Dt BIG5 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.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 @@
.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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