Extensions
The original Big-5 only include CJK logograms from 常用國字標準字體表 (4808字) and 次常用國字標準字體表 (6343字), but not letters from people's names, place names, dialects, chemistry, biology, Japanese kana. As a result, many Big-5 supporting software include extensions to address the problems.
The plethora of variations make UTF-8 or UTF-16 a more consistent code page for modern use.
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