Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] non-ASCII characters
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From: Andreas <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:00:53 +0100
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. 

Thanks for this help.

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Andy