[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

I noticed this weekend that there's a bunch of non-ASCII characters in 
the manuf file.  Of course this doesn't present well in the GUI (or in 
tshark output).

I found 2 easy options to fix it:

1) use encode():

~~~
sub shorten
{
  my $origmanuf = shift;
  $origmanuf = encode("ascii", $origmanuf);
~~~

This replaces non-ASCII chars with question marks.  It's better than 
what we have now, but not great.

2) use Text:Unidecode():

~~~
sub shorten
{
  my $origmanuf = shift;
  $origmanuf = unidecode($origmanuf);
~~~

This does a more intelligent conversion.

Gerald, does your system (that automatically updates manuf) have 
Text:Unidecode?  If not, can it be installed?