Re: iconv output utf-8 -> utf-16, which one is wrong?

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Mark Leisher wrote:

>     Bruno> Certainly, yes. The one who chooses to convert anything to UTF-16
>     Bruno> should know about this; and this is why the RFC is explicit about
>     Bruno> it.  The RFC also says that you can avoid the BOM problem by using
>     Bruno> UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE instead of UTF-16.
>
> We don't specifically use UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE.  That requires knowing the
> endian order a priori or requires some form of markup (out-of-band info).

The RFC is talking about the case where you have OOB info, for example MIME
headers.

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