[SDL] SDL_iconv UCS-4 endianness

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Am Tuesday, dem 25. Sep 2007 schrieb Christian Walther:

> I just discovered an inconsistency with SDL_iconv: SDL's internal iconv 
> implementation (used by SDL_iconv on Mac OS X) interprets "UCS-4" as 
> native-endian, while GNU libc iconv (used by SDL_iconv on Linux) 
> interprets it as big-endian (same as "UCS-4BE") (and seems to have no 
> option for native-endian UCS-4). Any idea who's right (if there even is 
> a commonly accepted definition of "right")?

This is undefined. So there is no right or wrong in this case.

If you want a more predictable behaviour, use UTF-32BE or UTF-32LE.
This should be the same result in SDL_iconv and in glibc...

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AKFoerster