Subject: Re: bug#41518: Bug in od?

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 09:36:10 +0200

On Mai 29 2020, Yuan Cao wrote:

> It just feels strange because the order does not reflect the order of the
> characters in the file.

But that's not true.  It reflects exactly how 2-byte numbers are stored
in memory on your system.  If you want to make a connection with
characters, you need to think about UCS-2 characters.

Andreas.

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