[libxml-devel] problem with UTF-16 encoding

[Erik Hollensbe]

On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:42 AM, Dan Janowski wrote:

> Last night I could not see what could BE and LE stand for?! Well, of
> course, Big Endian and Little Endian. When there is no lead in to
> indicate, the encoding can specify.

That's what the byte order mark is for. When we were battling unicode  
issues at work, I found the wikipedia articles on the subject very  
helpful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

is a good starter.

HTH,

-Erik