On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Tim Harig <usernet at ilthio.net> wrote: > That is why the FAQ I linked to > says yes to the fact that you can consider UTF-8 to always be in big-endian > order. It certainly doesn't. Read better. > Essentially all byte based data is big-endian. This is pure nonsense.