RE: UTF-16 [was: Re: Charset reviewer appointed] from Larry Masinter on 1998-07-25 (ietf-charsets@w3.org from July to September 1998)

From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 08:09:24 -0700 (PDT)
To: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>, Unicore <unicore@unicode.org>, ietf charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Message-id: <001301bdb7de$35b7c2a0$15d0000d@copper-208.parc.xerox.com>

> >> UTF-16   big-endian UTF-16
> >> UTF-16BS little-endian (byte-swapped) UTF-16
> 
> How about
> UTF-16BE   big-endian UTF-16
> UTF-16LE   little-endian UTF-16
> and, for those occasions where the byte order can vary,
> UTF-16BM   UTF-16 beginning with a byte order mark

How about not.


--Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)

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