Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark doesn't print bytes following a NULL character? (v1.2.6)

[Ryan Lynch <ryan.b.lynch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:55, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Ryan Lynch wrote:
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>> If it's a bug, I assume it's related to some assumptions about
>> null-terminated strings in C.
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> It's related to the fact that libwireshark - as used both by TShark and Wireshark - currently represents all strings in packets as C strings.  They should probably be represented as a counted UTF-8 string or as a counted byte sequence plus a character encoding or something such as that.

Thanks for the answer, Guy. That makes sense.

A search through the bug tracker and found this:

 * https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1372

Sounds like a pretty big project. Do you know whether there's any
active development effort going into this, right now?

-Ryan