- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:32:35 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, www-international@w3.org
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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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
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