RE: Default endianness of Unicode, or not

From: Yves Arrouye (yves@realnames.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 20:01:16 EDT

And of course, I have been complaining about ICU's UTF-16 converter
behavior, but glibc's one does the same assumption that "UTF-16" is in the
local endianness:

gabier% echo hello | uconv -t utf-16be | iconv -f utf-16 -t ascii
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 0
gabier%

So fixing one but not the other may introduce different compatibility
problems, this time on the local platform. Ugh.

YA

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