>> >> Perhaps if I am mistaken, and there are more than two octet orders, >> then using a string would be fine. Well, there is "middle-endian" (see http://unixpapa.com/incnote/byteorder.html) though I think it's unlikely anyone would want to support it nowadays. > > But there is another issue we haven't addressed - the default being 'little endian'. Whilst I understand that the common x86 architecture is little-endian, I'm more concerned that I very rarely (perhaps never?) see little-endian data in my own limited practice - mostly its been big-endian. Agreed, I think most-significant-first is by far the most common in interchange standards; though of course that falls into the 93% of all statistics which are made up on the spur of the moment... Michael Kay Saxonica
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