Re: byte order mark article

Leif Halvard Silli scripsit:

>   (Except that it, per Unicode, defaults to big endian, sorry.)

Yes.

> Well, yes. And no. Isn't the BOM part of the UTF-16 encoding? If yes, 
> then in a way it is more correct to say that it defaults to UTF-16BE. 

That is self-contradictory.  If a BOM is present, by definition the
encoding is not UTF-16BE or LE.

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