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by MenhirMike 713 days ago
Big Endian is also called Network Order because some networking protocols use it. And of course, UTF-16 BE is a thing.

There is a non-trivial chance that you will have to deal with BE data regardless if your machine is LE or BE.

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> some networking protocols

Pretty low-key way to refer to pretty much all layer 1-3 IETF protocols :D

It's like Tim Berners-Lee being referred to as "Web Developer" :)

https://imgur.com/kX5oBk6

Yeah but that's a known order. You don't have to detect it.