On 2010-07-30 6:14 PM Neil Mayhew wrote:
Different iconv implementations actually differ on this. On Mac OS X
on Intel with either the system iconv and the MacPorts version of GNU
libiconv, UCS-2 actually means big-endian.
I just built libiconv on Linux, and even there it treats UCS-2 as big
endian even on a little-endian machine.
It may be right, too. I just found this on the Unicode Consortium web site:
Q: What does Unicode conformance require?
A: Chapter 3, Conformance discusses this in detail. Here's a very
informal version:
...
If you don't know, assume big-endian.
<http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#11>
--Neil
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