diff --git a/taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp b/taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp
index e0c12ab9..923b9502 100644
--- a/taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp
+++ b/taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp
@@ -391,8 +391,8 @@ ByteVector String::data(Type t) const
       char c1 = *it >> 8;
       char c2 = *it & 0xff;
 
-      v.append(c2);
       v.append(c1);
+      v.append(c2);
     }
     break;
   }