I should say that I'm using emacs for windows. And it's preferring saving in big endian to little endian when this is the tag:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
From: J S <jszabo_98@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 7:21 PM To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: 35766@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#35766: emacs saves utf-16 le xml files as utf-16 be
Try saving this xml file and opening it again:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16LE"?>
From: J S <jszabo_98@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 7:15 PM To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: bug#35766: emacs saves utf-16 le xml files as utf-16 be
Try saving this xml file and opening it again:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16LE"?>
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 6:22 PM To: J S Cc: 35766@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#35766: emacs saves utf-16 le xml files as utf-16 be
> From: J S <jszabo_98@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:11:21 +0000
>
> Xml files with this tag are saved as utf-16 be by emacs, even if the file was originally utf-16 le. Using
> "UTF-16LE" instead will break the encoding and remove the BOM.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
Did you try using utf-16le-with-signature?
Or maybe I don't understand the scenario: would you please describe a
full reproduction recipe, starting from "emacs -Q"?