Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5247] Upper-case character in "name" of prefs_register_xxx
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:29:09 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5247

--- Comment #3 from Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-09-22 10:29:07 MDT ---
This is where it's documented in README.developer:

PROTOABBREV    A name for the protocol for use in filter expressions;
        it shall contain only lower-case letters, digits, and
        hyphens.

The crash isn't very helpful unless you can see the console screen where it
displays this message:

10:24:21          Err  Protocol filter name "eXec" has one or more invalid
characters. Allowed are lower characters, digits, '-', '_' and '.'. This might
be caused by an inappropriate plugin or a development error.
Abort (core dumped)

You can tell Wireshark on Windows to display the console when there are errors
or always in the preferences.

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