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Is java char big endian in JVM memory [stack/heap]? That is is it UTF-16 LE or UTF-16 BE?
I think It really shouldn’t matter that much and it is upto JVM implementation and keeps the native chip order for perf. reasons. That is LE for intel etc. Is that correct?
Or is it specified in Java spec. itself?
Java, the language, is endianness-agnostic. (The JVM implementation probably uses the hardware endianness.)
Varying ways of converting characters to a byte sequence have fixed endiannesses, though, e.g.
DataOutputStream.