On 1/20/11 10:00 AM, Andreas wrote: > Am 19.01.2011 21:21, schrieb Guy Harris: >> >> On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Andreas wrote: >> >>> I write a dissector for a protocol that transport measurement values >>> for pressure and temperature and so on. I would like to display the >>> values with proto_tree_add_float() with the correct unit. But the °C >>> symbol as well as µA is not displayed correctly. >>> >>> Is there a way display this character set specific characters in >>> Wireshark? How should I encode these characters that the GTK UI >>> displays the nice "°C" so that I can avoid "degrees centigrade"? >> >> Try encoding them in UTF-8 (*NOT* UTF-16/UCS-2!); that might work. > Yes it might, but this depends on the current editor I use on different > workstations. And the fiddling with the editor settings is cumbersome. >> >> Of course, getting the Windows C compiler to like it is another matter. >> You might have to explicitly encode it, e.g. "\302\260C" for "°C". > I would prefer the escape string "\xC2\xB0" anyway, since it's not only > a question of the compiler as the version control system incl. diff > viewer is also part of the tool chain.
You might want to add entries for the units you need to gtk/utf8_entities.h (and if we're going to use UTF-8 entities in dissectors we might want to move that file out of the GTK directory). ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
