etrapani> With the very same file, the iconv output is different under
etrapani> FreeBSD and Linux (both on Intel PIII). I don't want to find
etrapani> the cause of the difference (version numbers would helpful if
etrapani> that where the case), rather I want to know which output is the
etrapani> right one according to specs or common sense or even both :).
Assuming the characters are being shown byte-swapped, the FreeBSD output is
correct. Byte Order Mark's (BOM's) should be produced for all UTF-16 text.
This short segment of code shows how to determine if the text needs to be byte
swapped.
FILE *in;
int byte_swap;
unsigned short bom;
fread((char *) &bom, sizeof(unsigned short), 1, in);
byte_swap = (bom == 0xfffe) ? 1 : 0;
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