Stefan Krah added the comment:

> There is a need to byte-swap only when the data is stored on disk in the 
> reverse order from the native machine (i.e. NumPy is pointing to 
> memory-mapped data).

In that case it should be a matter of disabling some NumPy unit tests.
It seems that currently generating a Unicode object with non-native
byte-order is being tested, hence the reported failures.

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