On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Greg Titus <g...@omnigroup.com> wrote:
> Cocoa does use UTF-16 as the encoding for its unichar type in NSStrings, but
> the low 7-bits of UTF-16 (characters 0-127) are identical to the ASCII
> encodings, so you can cast (char)'7' or (unichar)'7' and get 0x37 either way
> and it'll be interpreted as the '7' character in a string as you would
> expect.

Doesn't that depend on the byte order?  What happens if the string is
stored big-endian with a BOM at the beginning, and you go and read out
a unichar?

--Kyle Sluder
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