UCS-2 interpretation

William,

I have a simpler spec question for you. :)

In section 7.4.15.2 'Multi-byte coded comment' the character encoding is 
given as UCS-2. I understand UCS-2 doesn't actually specify the byte 
order, though I haven't verified this in the referenced ISO document. I 
would expect it to be big-endian, as with the rest of the spec, but 
wanted to confirm that.

I'm also puzzled that UCS-2 was specified instead of UTF-16. Do you have 
any insight into current and expected practice there?

Cheers,
  -r