On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:46 AM, Andrea Lo Pumo <alopumo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Dario Lombardo
>>
>> What do you mean by "I do not know the Wireshark code"? What did you
>> patch? Do you mean you don't know the submission procedure instead?
>
>
> I mean I do not know the full implications of changing the code as I did. It
> worked for me because I am just interested in gsm_sms.sms_text, however,
> before accepting this patch someone with better understanding of the
> Wireshark code should think if it is ok.
>
>> What did you patch?
>
>
> print_escaped_bare() of epan/print.c
>
>
> 2018-07-05 16:01 GMT+02:00 Andrea Lo Pumo <alopumo@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> I am using "tshark -T json -V -r file.pcap" and specifically I am looking
>> for the gsm_sms.sms_text field.
>> I get this output:
>>
>> "gsm_sms.sms_text": "Ok per\u00c3\u00b2 non piove"
>>
>> Instead, using "tshark -V -r file.pcap" I get:
>>
>> SMS text: Ok però non piove
>>
>> (There is an accent in the "o" of "però")
>>
>> The problem is that the \uXXYY syntax is UTF-16 (see [1]), while "ò" is
>> UTF-8 and its bytes are c3 b2. Wireshark writes c3 b2 as they were UTF-16.
>>
>> I solved the problem by changing print_escaped_bare() of epan/print.c as
>> follow:
>> substitute
>>
>> default:
>> if (g_ascii_isprint(*p))
>> fputc(*p, fh);
>> else {
>> g_snprintf(temp_str, sizeof(temp_str), "\\u00%02x",
>> (guint8)*p);
>> fputs(temp_str, fh);
>> }
>>
>> with
>>
>> default:
>> fputc(*p, fh);
>>
>> I do not know the Wireshark code, so I am not submitting a patch. This,
>> however, should work because JSON supports UTF-8 (see again [1]).
>>
>> [1] From the JSON page on Wikipedia: JSON exchange in an open ecosystem
>> must be encoded in UTF-8. However, if escaped, those characters must be
>> written using UTF-16 surrogate pairs, a detail missed by some JSON parsers.
>>
That may mean the change needs to be wrapped in #indef Windows or
something similar, because the current encoding looks like it is for
Windows, but I may be wrong.
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