alt Hacker NewsThe development of Windows NT based on UCS-2 precedes the RFC by roughly a decade, and little-endian was the natural choice for the Intel PC platform. Obviously the endianness had to remain the same when UCS-2 was extended to support UTF-16.
The development of Windows NT based on UCS-2 precedes the RFC by roughly a decade, and little-endian was the natural choice for the Intel PC platform. Obviously the endianness had to remain the same when UCS-2 was extended to support UTF-16.