Re: BOM & Unicode editors

At 10:43 AM 05/10/2000 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
>This is all fine and well for UTF-16, but what about UTF-8 ? why does the
>byte order matter?

The byte-order is still important since it controls what UTF-8 codes get 
emitted for the same input codepoint. Just as you need to know which order 
to save the two bytes of a UTF-16 character, you need to know what order to 
assemble the two bytes that get created by expanding a UTF-8 sequence.

Received on Thursday, 11 May 2000 12:25:06 UTC