Is the UTF-8 encoding scheme the same irrespective of whether the underlying processor is little endian or big endian?
Yes. Since UTF-8 is interpreted as a sequence of bytes, there is no endian problem as there is for encoding forms that use 16-bit or 32-bit code units. Where a BOM is used with UTF-8, it is only used as an ecoding signature to distinguish UTF-8 from other encodings — it has nothing to do with byte order.
