Jeu asked: > Is the UTF-8 encoding scheme the same irrespective of whether the > uderlying proccessor is little endian or big endian, The answer to this part of the question is yes. Since UTF-8 is interpreted as a sequence of bytes, there is no endian problem as there is for encoding forms that use 16-bit or 32-bit code units. > or if the system uses > ASCII or EBCDIC encoding. This does make a difference, however. Standard UTF-8 won't survive in an EBCDIC system, because of the different arrangements of control codes. See the Unicode Technical Report #16 UTF-EBCDIC for the specification of a conversion of UTF-8 that will work inside an EBCDIC system. --Ken
