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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcodecs.tex b/Doc/lib/libcodecs.tex index 9f77955..136c528 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcodecs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcodecs.tex @@ -142,16 +142,21 @@ for reading and writing to platform dependent files: \begin{datadesc}{BOM} \dataline{BOM_BE} \dataline{BOM_LE} -\dataline{BOM32_BE} -\dataline{BOM32_LE} -\dataline{BOM64_BE} -\dataline{BOM64_LE} -These constants define the byte order marks (BOM) used in data -streams to indicate the byte order used in the stream or file. -\constant{BOM} is either \constant{BOM_BE} or \constant{BOM_LE} -depending on the platform's native byte order, while the others -represent big endian (\samp{_BE} suffix) and little endian -(\samp{_LE} suffix) byte order using 32-bit and 64-bit encodings. +\dataline{BOM_UTF8} +\dataline{BOM_UTF16} +\dataline{BOM_UTF16_BE} +\dataline{BOM_UTF16_LE} +\dataline{BOM_UTF32} +\dataline{BOM_UTF32_BE} +\dataline{BOM_UTF32_LE} +These constants define various encodings of the Unicode byte order mark +(BOM) used in UTF-16 and UTF-32 data streams to indicate the byte order +used in the stream or file and in UTF-8 as a Unicode signature. +\constant{BOM_UTF16} is either \constant{BOM_UTF16_BE} or +\constant{BOM_UTF16_LE} depending on the platform's native byte order, +\constant{BOM} is an alias for \constant{BOM_UTF16}, \constant{BOM_LE} +for \constant{BOM_UTF16_LE} and \constant{BOM_BE} for \constant{BOM_UTF16_BE}. +The others represent the BOM in UTF-8 and UTF-32 encodings. \end{datadesc} |