diff --git a/runtime/doc/mbyte.txt b/runtime/doc/mbyte.txt
index 96b5b4d..5bcb505 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/mbyte.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/mbyte.txt
@@ -1267,8 +1267,8 @@
 When reading a file a BOM (Byte Order Mark) can be used to recognize the
 Unicode encoding:
 	EF BB BF     utf-8
-	FF FE        utf-16 big endian
-	FE FF        utf-16 little endian
+	FE FF        utf-16 big endian
+	FF FE        utf-16 little endian
 	00 00 FE FF  utf-32 big endian
 	FF FE 00 00  utf-32 little endian