- From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:11:23 -0700
- To: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Small correction: Mark Davis wrote: > initial BOM then the byte-orientation must be big-endian. That is, in any > stream that does not begin with the (hex) byte sequence <00 00 FE FF> all of > the bytes are interpreted as big-endian. This must read: ... in any stream that does not begin with the (hex) byte sequence <FF FE 00 00> all of the bytes are interpreted as big-endian. Explanation: Mark had the BE BOM in his sentence. It must be "everything that does not begin with the LE BOM is big-endian". One might add a note that UTF-32 with a little-endian BOM could appear to have a UTF-16 LE BOM because that is a subset. The UTF-32 registration might specify that <FF FE 00 00> is UTF-32 (little-endian), and that <FF FE xx xx> with not both xx bytes 00 is UTF-16 (little-endian). markus
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