2011/3/31 Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Maxim Uvarov wrote:
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>> Is there any way to make tshark or wireshark to show non English
>> characters (for example Russian)? Pcap file has write symbols but
>> after unrolling them with tshark it substitutes dots instead of
>> original characters. Hex info shows the right information but ascii
>> has only dots. It is known issue?
>
> In the hex/ASCII dump pane, we will probably never show bytes other than printable ASCII characters as anything other than "."; there's no easy way to determine the character encoding of particular parts of the hex dump, and there isn't even a guarantee that there's a one-to-one correspondence between bytes and characters (consider UTF-8, Asian double-byte character sets, etc.), or even that bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F are ASCII - they might be EBCDIC.
>
> However, we *would* like to do a better job of handling non-ASCII characters in strings in the packet list and packet detail panes, allowing not just UTF-8 and UTF-16 but other encodings for protocols that use them. We don't have that yet.
Thanks. Can you please point me to function(or file) were it puts dots
instead of real chars?
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Best regards,
Maxim Uvarov