Re: Unicode in source

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 13:29:10 EDT

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Rick McGowan wrote:

> John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Yes, sorry, WinNT supports UTF-16-LE, and writes a correct BOM,
> > (first two bytes are FE FF), but it will not process UTF-16-BE
> > even *with* a correct BOM; it assumes the local code page instead.
>
> Huh? {FE,FF} is a big-endian BOM. {FF,FE} would be a little-endian BOM.
> Which is it really?

I die. My bloated and stinking corpse is belatedly found buried under
a terabyte database. It corrupts the database. The database corrupts
the entire world. All die. O, the embarrassment.

(In other words, Rick is right and I am wrong.)

-- 
	John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan	cowan@ccil.org
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau,
Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
			-- Coleridge / Politzer

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