I've created a Sqlite 3.37.2 database with pragma UTF-16BE. Using the query encoding pragma confirms that the database encoding is BE. If I then create a table, query sqlite_master, and use sqlite_column_bytes16 to get the table name from the appropriate column, the bytes retrieved are little endian. If I create a database with encoding UTF-16LE, doing the same sequence also returns the results encoded little endian. The machine the database is running on is little endian hardware. Is this expected behavior of sqlite_column_bytes16? The doc makes it sound like if the DB encoding is big endian, then sqlite_column_bytes16 should return big endian. Is sqlite_column_bytes16 returning little endian regardless of the db encoding, because it is running on a little endian machine (an auto-conversion)? Thanks in advance for any info...