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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 03:35:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 8 May 2024 02:47:46 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> It doesn't make sense to say that character strings are big- or little-
> endian.

Yes it does, for just about any encoding other than UTF-8. Thus, you have 
UTF16BE, and UTF16LE.