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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian" - first usage for computer
Keywords: dump little-endian strings
Message-ID: <5721@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 05:00:07 GMT
References: <170@microsoft.UUCP> <4008@hubcap.UUCP> <482@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> <5703@cbmvax.UUCP> <11113@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <11113@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ggs@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Griff Smith) writes:
>In article <5703@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>> 	Personally, that's a nice kludge to get around the fact that little-
>> endian is "naturally" written right to left, bottom to top by most people.
>> However, people don't read that way, certainly not text.
>
>Where `people' are defined to be those who happen to be members of the
>Western cultures that read left to right.  What does that make the others?

	Yes, sorry, I forgot to qualify that as people is "Western"
cultures.  This is the smallest problem with existing systems/software
for non-"Western" people (does your software support kanji? Arabic?)

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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup