Re: UTF_16 question

Stefan Ram ha scritto:

jak <nospam@please.ty> wrote or quoted:

                         I read it, both with encoding='utf_16_be' and
with 'utf_16_le' without errors but in the last case the bytes are
inverted.

    I think the order of the octets (bytes) is exactly the difference
   between these two encodings, so your observation isn't really
   surprising. The computer can't report an error here since it
   can't infer the correct encoding from the file data. It's like
   that koan: "A bit has the value 1. What does that mean?".
 

Understood. They are just 2 bytes and there is no difference between
them.
Thank you.