2011/3/31 Guy Harris <[email protected]>: > > On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Maxim Uvarov wrote: > >> 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? > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Best regards, Maxim Uvarov ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
