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| author | Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> | 2007-05-03 15:13:55 (GMT) |
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| committer | Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> | 2007-05-03 15:13:55 (GMT) |
| commit | 27f4abf3b16ab818eae765439341139babc9ea31 (patch) | |
| tree | 99a329539c464cf80fd95fd196a2caa8cccea6d1 /Doc | |
| parent | 9b73d0aed5e398b83669b4ab5c6f806369d37688 (diff) | |
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Clarify the behaviour of PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16(): A BOM is only skipped
in native order mode, and only if it's the first two bytes.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/api/concrete.tex | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/api/concrete.tex b/Doc/api/concrete.tex index 10f898e..b5622cc 100644 --- a/Doc/api/concrete.tex +++ b/Doc/api/concrete.tex @@ -1178,10 +1178,10 @@ These are the UTF-16 codec APIs: *byteorder == 1: big endian \end{verbatim} - and then switches according to all byte order marks (BOM) it finds - in the input data. BOMs are not copied into the resulting Unicode - string. After completion, \var{*byteorder} is set to the current - byte order at the end of input data. + and then switches if the first two bytes of the input data are a byte order + mark (BOM) and the specified byte order is native order. This BOM is not + copied into the resulting Unicode string. After completion, \var{*byteorder} + is set to the current byte order at the. If \var{byteorder} is \NULL{}, the codec starts in native order mode. |