[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2559) Forget one thing

["Raimar Falke via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:34:28AM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> Bernd Korz via RT wrote:
> > The problem ist that BeOS can not manage not staic bytes for Fonts so we 
> > need fixed ones, but jdore can declear this better then me.
> 
> Davide ran into a similar thing on an Alpha platform.
> 
> The problem that we eventually found is that UTF-16 can be either 
> big-endian or little-endian.  The first byte of the string indicates 
> which: either 0xffef or 0xefff. 

There are three flavors of UTF-16: "plain" UTF-16, UTF-16LE and
UTF-16BE. To get the endian-ness of the "plain" one a byte-order-mark
(BOM) (the 0xffef or 0xefff) is prepended to the data and the reader
has to recognize it and act accordingly.

> And it appears this endian-ness is not dependent on the endian-ness
> of the machine.

True.

        Raimar

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