From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 17:29:13 EST
This is an expected behavior. Ii has to do with the "Endian-ness" of the
processor on which you are running. From the glossary
(http://www.unicode.org/glossary/):
Little-endian. A computer architecture that stores multiple-byte numerical
values with the least significant byte (LSB) values first.
Big-endian. A computer architecture that stores multiple-byte numerical
values with the most significant byte (MSB) values first.
You can also find several thousand web pages describing the issue by
searching in google for these two terms.
MichKa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Smith, Mike" <SMITHM@fish.govt.nz>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 1:16 PM
Subject: Order in which unicode charactoers displayed
> Hello
>
> I am attempting to utilise the unicode values from the CJK Unified
> Ideographs to undertake searches for the occurance of the corresponding
> characters on a hard disk drive.
>
> When I look at a chinese character with a hex editor I get a certain
> order for the hex or unicode value for the character. For example, the
> english word 'abalone' in chinese has a code of '8D9C 7C9C' when viewed
> in a hex editor, but when I referred to the CJK unicode table, the value
> came out as '9C8D 9C7C'.
>
> Can you explain the different ordering of the code?
>
> When I conducted a test search of the contents of a hard drive known to
> contain the chinese characters for 'abalone' I only found hits on the
> hex values not onth e CJK unicode values.
>
> Any assistance woudl be appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Mike Smith
>
>
>
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