Tim Harig <user...@ilthio.net> wrote: >On 2011-01-17, carlo <syseng...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2- If that were true, can you point me to some documentation about the >> math that, as Mark says, demonstrates this? > >It is true because UTF-8 is essentially an 8 bit encoding that resorts >to the next bit once it exhausts the addressible space of the current >byte it moves to the next one. Since the bytes are accessed and assessed >sequentially, they must be in big-endian order.
You were doing excellently up to that last phrase. Endianness only applies when you treat a series of bytes as a larger entity. That doesn't apply to UTF-8. None of the bytes is more "significant" than any other, so by definition it is neither big-endian or little-endian. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
