Martin Duerst's posting about says it all except for the historical trivia...
Big-endian Unicode "by default" also makes sense if you consider that all
existing "multi-byte" encodings are "big-endian", and all of the ISO standards
that define such encodings are "big-endian". I remember this being pointed
out at the time the decision was taken to specify the default clause that
Martin quotes.
Rick
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