This is known a byte order mark or BOM. It can be used to determine several
things:
1) That it is a Unicode file
2) The byte order of the file (little endian or big endian)
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomas McGuinness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 5:31 AM
Subject: [unicode] UCS-2 Files
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question relating to UCS-2. I am currently developing a product
> that will support UCS-2 and I have been sent several documents encoded in
> UCS-2. I have no reader or writer for UCS-2 but I have performed Hexdumps
in
> UNIX. At the beginning of the UCS-2 characters there are two rogue
> characters 0xFF and 0xFE. Have these characters any importance?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Tom McGuinness
>
>
