RE: Unicode in source

From: Murray Sargent (murrays@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 15:15:10 EDT

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FF FE, checking a sample NotePad file with my handy SST debugger.

Murray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick McGowan [SMTP:rmcgowan@apple.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 9:58 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: Unicode in source
>
> 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?
>
> Rick

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