--- a/CharacterEncoderImplementations__ISO10646_to_UTF16BE.st	Wed Feb 19 16:17:35 2020 +0100
+++ b/CharacterEncoderImplementations__ISO10646_to_UTF16BE.st	Wed Feb 19 16:17:53 2020 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+"{ Encoding: utf8 }"
+
 "
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               All Rights Reserved
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@
   Decoding (utf16BE to unicode):
      |t|
 
-     t := ISO10646_to_UTF16BE encodeString:'ÄÖÜß'.
+     t := ISO10646_to_UTF16BE encodeString:'ÄÖÜß'.
      ISO10646_to_UTF16BE decodeString:t.
 
   Decoding (utf16LE-Bytes to unicode):
@@ -299,6 +301,25 @@
     "Modified: / 17-01-2018 / 14:41:31 / stefan"
 ! !
 
+!ISO10646_to_UTF16BE methodsFor:'testing'!
+
+isUtf16Encoder
+    "answer true, if this encodes from/to UTF-16 (regardless of byte-order)"
+
+    ^ true
+
+    "Created: / 19-02-2020 / 16:15:36 / Stefan Reise"
+!
+
+isUtfEncoder
+    "answer true, if this encodes from/to any UTF (regardless of how many bytes and byte-order).
+     In other words: does it make sense to prepend a BOM"
+
+    ^ true
+
+    "Created: / 19-02-2020 / 16:15:47 / Stefan Reise"
+! !
+
 !ISO10646_to_UTF16BE class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
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