Endian-ness only affects ordering of bytes within a code unit. Because UTF-8 has single byte code units, the order is not affected by endian-ness, only the UTF-8 bit mapping itself.
Note also that endian-ness only affects individual 16-bit code units in UTF-16. If you have a surrogate pair, endian-ness doesn't effect the ordering of each 16-bit unit that makes up the pair, only the two bytes within each of the units. James On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:25 PM Costello, Roger L. via Unicode < [email protected]> 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 > > -- *James Tauber* Eldarion <https://eldarion.com/> | jktauber.com (Greek Linguistics) <https://jktauber.com/> | Modelling Music <https://modelling-music.com/> | Digital Tolkien <https://digitaltolkien.com/>
