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Unicode is used for all sorts of puposes, not just XML encoding, and so it also has a mechanism to distinguish between small-endian and big-endian encodings, which determine which byte comes first in UTF-16 and UTF-32.
MSDN Blogs marcelolr 2010
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Remember that the INTEL machines are 'small-endian' machines.
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