Thank you for clarification.
2009/2/26 Mike Ayers <[email protected]>
> > From: Dave Shield [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:14 AM
>
> > Followed by a string value (16 octets)
> >
> > > 44 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 46 00 00 00 00 00
> > ..D...E...F.....
> > > 0064: 00 00 ..
> >
> > containing the DEF string, followed by a '\0' trailing wide-character.
>
> That's overtrimmed. The original read:
>
> 0048: 04 10 44 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 46 00 00 00 00 00 ..D...E...F.....
> 0064: 00 00 ..
>
> That's 04 for octet string, 10 for 16 bytes long, and the sequences
> "44 00 00 00", "45 00 00 00", "46 00 00 00", and "00 00 00 00". I'm
> guessing that wide characters (L"") on OP's platform are 32 bits.
>
> > > NET-SNMP-TUTORIAL-MIB::nstAgentSubagentObject.0 = STRING: D
> >
> > So yes - it's the output routines that are going wrong.
>
> Nope. That's the expected output when you try to print wide ASCII.
> The second character (as interpreted by the print routine) is the null
> terminator (because it's supposed to be padding to fit the ASCII into 16 or
> 32 bits).
>
> Note that there has not been a "Unicode" character encoding in about
> 15 years, and never a "UTF" encoding - there are UTF-16, UTF-8, UTF-32,
> UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, etc., etc., ad nauseum. The only one that I would
> expect to have any chance of success is UTF-8, which is guaranteed not to be
> generated by L"". In any case, your debug output showa that your wide chars
> are transferred correctly, which *is* expected of SNMP (the joys of TLV!).
>
> If you really need to understand this better, here's your (WARNING:
> PAINFUL!) starting point:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr17/
>
>
>
> Peace, love, and Unicode!
>
> Mike
>
--
/BR, Alexander
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