Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 13743: /trunk/epan/dissectors/: packet

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:41:51 -0800
Joerg Mayer wrote:


Well, '\0' is a *valid* character in an SSID. Can the string display code
deal with it?
Yes. It displays it as \000. But if the SSID has a \0 in it, is it a string of "characters" or is it a string of octets, i.e. should it just display it in hex? 


Also: Will it now start displaying those \xxx sequences?
Yes. If "." is to be considered better than \xxx in that case, what makes an SSID different from any other type of string? Should *all* strings use "." instead of \xxx? If not, why not?