[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary Endianness

[Adrian Neumann]

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I try to write a Windows Bitmap File using Data.Binary, but I have some
trouble.

For example, the internet states, that the magic number, that puts 'BM'
in the first two bytes of the file is 19778. But when I

> put (19778::Word16)

I get 'MB' instead. I read on the german Wikipedia, that bmp uses little
endian encoding, but Data.Binary uses big endian. Obviously this can't work.

Is there a way to switch endianness? Or at least a function that
converts between the two?

I looked at the Data.Binary Haddock documentation, but found nothing
like that.

Thanks in advance,

Adrian
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