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Re: little-endian

From "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: little-endian
Date 2012-11-17 19:50 +0000
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"Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote in message 
news:0.abf536d710deb4d3bf3e.20121117193507GMT.87k3tkc9as.fsf@bsb.me.uk...
> "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> <snip>
>> Or files can be sent (highly inefficiently) in true text format (not
>> binary disguised as text), which is invariably big-endian.
>
> Why invariably?  Someone used to Arabic (for example) might well output
> a number starting with the least significant digit first.

You mean text that might in a Western alphabet look like:

 ABC 12345 DEF

could appear (making no attempt write actual Arabic here...) as:

 FED 12345 BCA

(since all such examples I've seen don't seem to reverse their numbers). 
You're saying that that might be stored in the text itself, if it starts at 
"A", as:

ABC 54321 DEF ?

If so then perhaps you have a point. But there might then be bigger problems 
to deal with than the endianness of numbers...


-- 
Bartc

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little-endian bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-11-15 13:45 -0800
  Re: little-endian JJ <jaejunks@glegooilma-swapit.com> - 2012-11-15 23:33 +0000
  Re: little-endian bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-11-16 10:38 -0800
    Re: little-endian "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-11-16 23:32 +0100
      Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-16 21:17 -0600
        Re: little-endian "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-11-17 10:26 +0100
          Re: little-endian "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-11-17 11:38 +0000
            Re: little-endian "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-11-17 13:56 +0100
              Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 11:58 -0600
            Re: little-endian Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-11-17 19:35 +0000
              Re: little-endian "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-11-17 19:50 +0000
          Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 11:30 -0600
            Re: little-endian Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 09:28 +1300
              Re: little-endian Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-17 14:48 -0600
                Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 16:22 -0600
                Re: little-endian Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 15:17 +1300
                Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-18 09:13 +0100
                Re: little-endian Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 21:33 +1300
                Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-18 10:15 +0100
                Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 03:03 -0600
                Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-18 10:29 +0100
                Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 12:50 -0600
  Re: little-endian Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-11-22 04:49 -0800
    Re: little-endian Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-11-23 15:22 +0100
      Re: little-endian pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-11-25 19:39 +0000
        Re: little-endian Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-11-26 12:01 +0100
          Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-26 14:02 +0100
            Re: little-endian Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-11-26 15:34 +0100
              Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-26 17:03 +0100
              Re: little-endian Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-26 17:44 -0600
                Re: little-endian Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 23:43 -0800
                Re: little-endian Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-29 22:46 -0600
          Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-26 08:30 -0600
        Re: little-endian Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 23:45 -0800

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