Re: reg: Unicode Conformance

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Srikrishna wrote:

> For UTF16 encoding scheme, BOM specifies that how a file should be
> serialized

No, the BOM specifies how a file *IS* serialized. You are welcome to make
a BE file on a LE machine if you want to, and vice versa. But when you
interepret that file, you should pay attention to the BOM.

> So LE & BE input files are supposed to be processed on LE & BE
> platforms respectively. when worng endianess input scripts are
> given i.e LE script on BE platform and vice versa, application
> should terminate with an error.

Terminating with an error seems pretty drastic, especially if you know
what you're looking at. Why not just convert the byte stream to the other
endianess?

        Rick

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