On Mai 29 2020, Yuan Cao wrote: > It just feels strange because the order does not reflect the order of the > characters in the file.
But that's not true. It reflects exactly how 2-byte numbers are stored in memory on your system. If you want to make a connection with characters, you need to think about UCS-2 characters. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."