hixie: UTF-16 is LE on the web, not BE, according to IE. (whatwg r3413)

hixie: UTF-16 is LE on the web, not BE, according to IE. (whatwg r3413)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2542&r2=1.2543&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3412&to=3413

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   violation</a> of the W3C Character Model specification, motivated
   by a desire for compatibility with legacy content. <a href="#references">[CHARMOD]</a></p>
 
+  <p>When a user agent is to use the UTF-16 encoding but no BOM has
+  been found, user agents must default to UTF-16LE.</p>
+
+  <p class="note">The requirement to default UTF-16 to LE rather than
+  BE is a <a href="#willful-violation">willful violation</a> of RFC 2781, motivated by a
+  desire for compatibility with legacy content. <a href="#references">[CHARMOD]</a></p>
+
   <hr><p>User agents must not support the CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1 and SCSU
   encodings. <a href="#references">[CESU8]</a> <a href="#references">[UTF7]</a> <a href="#references">[BOCU1]</a> <a href="#references">[SCSU]</a></p>

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