Re: non English characters

[Maxim Uvarov <muvarov () gmail com>]

2011/3/31 Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>:
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Maxim Uvarov wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to make tshark or wireshark to show non English
> > characters (for example Russian)? Pcap file has write symbols but
> > after unrolling them with tshark it substitutes dots instead of
> > original characters. Hex info shows the right information but ascii
> > has only dots. It is known issue?
>
> In the hex/ASCII dump pane, we will probably never show bytes other than printable ASCII characters as anything other 
> than "."; there's no easy way to determine the character encoding of particular parts of the hex dump, and there 
> isn't even a guarantee that there's a one-to-one correspondence between bytes and characters (consider UTF-8, Asian 
> double-byte character sets, etc.), or even that bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F are ASCII - they might be EBCDIC.
>
> However, we *would* like to do a better job of handling non-ASCII characters in strings in the packet list and packet 
> detail panes, allowing not just UTF-8 and UTF-16 but other encodings for protocols that use them.  We don't have that 
> yet.


Thanks. Can you please point me to function(or file) were it puts dots
instead of real chars?

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Maxim Uvarov
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