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For questions about method for storing and manipulating numbers on computer systems, such as floating point or binary representations.

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Why does little endian apply to numbers and not to text strings?

The premise is wrong. Unicode encodings include UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE and UTF32-LE. Only UTF-8 has no Litte-Endian or Big-Endian variants. Fundamentally, Endian-ness is about the byte order of …
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