Asmus, I believe it also applies to the bit order in the bytes I believe UTF-16 and UTF-32 are transmitted as single 16 or 32-bit numbers. UTF-8 is a stream of 8-bit numbers
Clive *Clive P. Hohberger, PhD MBA* Managing Director Clive Hohberger, LLC +1 847 910 8794 [email protected] *Inventor of the Ultracode Bar Code Symbology* *2017 Label Industry Global Award for Innovation* On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:29 PM Asmus Freytag via Unicode < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2/4/2019 11:21 AM, Costello, Roger L. via Unicode wrote: > > Hello Unicode Experts! > > As I understand it, endian-ness applies to multi-byte words. > > Endian-ness does not apply to ASCII characters because each character is a > single byte. > > Endian-ness does apply to UTF-16BE (Big-Endian), UTF-16LE (Little-Endian), > UTF-32BE and UTF32-LE because each character uses multiple bytes. > > Clearly endian-ness does not apply to single-byte UTF-8 characters. But what > about UTF-8 characters that use multiple bytes, such as the character é, > which uses two bytes C3 and A9; does endian-ness apply? For example, if a > file is in Little Endian would the character é appear in a hex editor as A9 > C3 whereas if the file is in Big Endian the character é would appear in a hex > editor as C3 A9? > > /Roger > > > > UTF-8 is a byte stream. Therefore, the order of bytes in a multiple byte > integer does not come into it. > > A./ >
