Possibly its asymmetric political power at its finest but I am aware of at least one "business intelligence" application that outputs its CSV files consistently

Possibly its asymmetric political power at its finest but I am aware of at least one "business intelligence" application that outputs its CSV files consistently as UTF-16BE (not LE) I'm not even sure what planet its from, much less the application, I just get stuck importing what they feel like sending me. I don't know why everything that upstream sends me is in UTF-16BE format, its just what they do. Perhaps they hate me, or my employer. I donno. Perhaps its an intelligence test to cut down on support costs, you must be this smart or smarter to mess with our data or go away.