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by rwmj 1873 days ago
TIFF is another one. The only endian-switchable image format that I'm aware of.

Fun fact: CD-ROM superblocks have both-endian fields. Each integer is stored twice in big and little endian format. I assume this was to allow underpowered 80s hardware which didn't have enough resource to do byte swapping.