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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
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According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:
>> Character strings are in big-endian order.
>
>Not in Hebrew or Chinese !! 

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

They're stored in the order you would read them, and there's typically
metadata about how to display them. In Unicode, Hebrew and Arabic code
points display right to left, Chinese displays however they want,
typically left to right in rows these days.

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