[RESOLVED] Reading Bytes (Little Endian/Big Endian)

[dbasnett]

I don't think so. It's a bin file.

So? What do you think is happening when you apply a unicode encoder to a file not encoded with unicode?

Using the big-endian and little-endian methods, the number 0x12345678 would be stored as shown in the following table.


Byte order  Byte 0  Byte 1  Byte 2  Byte 3  
Big-endian
             0x12    0x34     0x56    0x78
 
Little-endian
             0x78    0x56     0x34    0x12

If using integers, read four bytes and "OR" them into an integer( = 0) in the appropriate place.