Big-endian

1) Pertaining to the order of bytes within a word, such that the most-significant byte has the lowest address (big end first). 2) Contrasted with little-endian

big-endian

Software; Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

A computer architecture that stores multibyte numerical values with the most significant byte values first. On systems using big endian architecture, the letter “A” (U+0041) is ...

big-endian

Semiconductors; Digital Signal Processors (DSP)

An addressing protocol in which bytes are numbered from left to right within a word. More significant bytes in a word have lower numbered addresses. Endian ordering is specific to ...

big endian

Software; Globalization software service

A format for storage or transmission of binary data in which the most significant value is placed first. See also endian, little endian.

Unicode encoding form

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A Unicode encoding form assigns each Unicode scalar value to a unique code unit sequence. The Unicode Standard defines three Unicode encoding forms: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. * ...

Unicode encoding scheme

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A specified byte serialization for a Unicode encoding form, including the specification of the handling of a byte order mark (BOM), if allowed. * For historical reasons, the ...

Unicode locale data markup language (LDML)

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

The XML specification for the exchange of locale data, defined by Unicode Technical Standard #35, "Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)." (See also Unicode Common Locale ...

Unicode scalar value

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

ny Unicode code point except high-surrogate and low-surrogate code points. In other words, the ranges of integers 0 to D7FF16 and E00016 to 10FFFF16 inclusive. * As a result of ...

Unicode signature

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

An implicit marker to identify a file as containing Unicode text in a particular encoding form. An initial byte order mark (BOM) may be used as a Unicode signature.