Character Sets

The Traditional Chinese Operating System conforms to the CNS 11643 standard, updated in late 1992, and the BIG5 character sets.

The BIG5 character sets are part of the CNS 11643-1992 standard. The BIG5 standard includes 13,461 characters defined by five major Taiwanese computer vendors (including the Institute of Information Industry) in May, 1984. Although BIG5 is not the national standard, it is more widely used than the CNS 11634-1992.

Traditional Chinese Solaris software provides code conversion between Chinese code conventions and three levels of support:

• User commands support file transfers for existing files in different codes.

• Library functions support application development for existing codes.

• STREAMS modules support existing TTY devices using different codes.