convert='BIG_ENDIAN' and character data

[Thomas Koenig]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:17 +0100, Keith Refson wrote:
> Obviously this behaviour means that data files containing mixed
> arithmetic types and CHARACTER data are not portable between big- and
> little-endian architectures using this flag.  Is this intentional
> behaviour.

No, it is not.

Furthermore, this is a regression for 4.4; 4.3 worked ok.

I have opened PR 37753 for this.

Thanks a lot for finding this bug!

	Thomas