Re: Revised proposal for UTF-16

[Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>]

At 03:29 PM 5/18/98 +0900, MURATA Makoto wrote:
>Here is the revised verion of the proposal.  Have we reached a consensus?
>
>Makoto
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>We propose to register UTF-16 as a charset in IANA.  
>
>UTF-16 should be sent in network byte order (big-endian).  However, 
>recipients should be able to handle both big-endian and little-endian.

Apologies if this is already addressed somewhere.
I think it might be good to add the lines:

If UTF-16 is sent in little-endian byte order, it MUST be prefixed with
a BOM to allow recipients to determine the byte order.
UTF-16 sent in network byte order MAY be prefixed with a BOM.

- Dan