Its comment in include/tools/stream.hxx tells:
Switch to no endian swapping and write 0xfeff
It was introduced in commit 3c2105e07d
Author Eike Rathke <er@openoffice.org>
Date Fri Dec 22 00:19:05 2000 +0000
new: read/write Unicode or Bytecode
and included a call to SetEndianSwap( FALSE ). That call was dropped
in commit 8130714148
Author Noel Grandin <noel@peralex.com>
Date Mon Jan 05 08:47:31 2015 +0200
fdo#84938: replace NUMBERFORMAT_INT_ constants with 'enum class'
(likely by accident).
To simplify the fix, drop redundant m_nEndian: m_isSwap is enough.
Change-Id: Ia9a0fe2d55563e7ba21bd4cf17c4ca999c6feaf7
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/141521
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Mike Kaganski <mike.kaganski@collabora.com>
e7be4bb5a3