UTF_16 question

[jak]

Stefan Ram ha scritto:
> jak <nospam at please.ty> wrote or quoted:
>>                          I read it, both with encoding='utf_16_be' and
>> with 'utf_16_le' without errors but in the last case the bytes are
>> inverted.
> 
>    I think the order of the octets (bytes) is exactly the difference
>    between these two encodings, so your observation isn't really
>    surprising. The computer can't report an error here since it
>    can't infer the correct encoding from the file data. It's like
>    that koan: "A bit has the value 1. What does that mean?".
> 

Understood. They are just 2 bytes and there is no difference between
them.

Thank you.