Re: non-ASCII characters

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

On 1/20/11 10:00 AM, Andreas wrote:
> Am 19.01.2011 21:21, schrieb Guy Harris:
> > On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Andreas wrote:
> >
> > > I write a dissector for a protocol that transport measurement values
> > > for pressure and temperature and so on. I would like to display the
> > > values with proto_tree_add_float() with the correct unit. But the °C
> > > symbol as well as µA is not displayed correctly.
> > >
> > > Is there a way display this character set specific characters in
> > > Wireshark? How should I encode these characters that the GTK UI
> > > displays the nice "°C" so that I can avoid "degrees centigrade"?
> >
> > Try encoding them in UTF-8 (*NOT* UTF-16/UCS-2!); that might work.
> Yes it might, but this depends on the current editor I use on different
> workstations. And the fiddling with the editor settings is cumbersome.
> > Of course, getting the Windows C compiler to like it is another matter.
> > You might have to explicitly encode it, e.g. "\302\260C" for "°C".
> I would prefer the escape string "\xC2\xB0" anyway, since it's not only
> a question of the compiler as the version control system incl. diff
> viewer is also part of the tool chain.

You might want to add entries for the units you need to
gtk/utf8_entities.h (and if we're going to use UTF-8 entities in
dissectors we might want to move that file out of the GTK directory).
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