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Re: [LI] File structure and Distros



On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:07:25AM +0000, Swapan Sarkar wrote:
> I was wondering about the byte sequence for multibyte encoding of these
> files. Are they processor dependent or FS dependent ? How does I/O
> handle such multibyte characters ? How does it compare to say JAVA ?

I think unicode standard specifies that unicode strings should be in
little endian format.

http://www.google.com/search?q=unicode+endianness

Regardless of that, as far as Linux (kernel) is concerned, Unicode or
no unicode, everything is an untyped stream of bytes.

	-Arun

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