Re: [Ethereal-dev] Unicode strings ...

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Potter wrote:
> Richard Sharpe writes:
>
>
> > > Hmm... do you mean strings of wide characters or some other encoding (
> > > utf-8?).
> > Good question. I was thinking specifically of what MS puts on the wire, 
> > which I think is wide characters, but we need to think this issue 
> > through. Internally, Samba will be using UTF-8, I think, (although, this 
> > is irrelevant) and there may be other protocols that use other forms of 
> > UNICODE.
>
> NT actually uses UCS2-LE (i.e 2 byte characters, little endian)
> on the wire for the rpc calls.  So it's a bit more complicated
> than having ustring calls.  )-:

Hmmm, but don't they look like lots of UCS2-LE characters, followed by 
0x000x00?

If so, I can handle these with a proto_tree_add_ustring_format or some such.

The question that remains is do we want to be able to handle different 
Unicode formats? That is, will we need to handle other protocols that 
may have different on-the-wire formats? If so, do we want to allow for 
them now?

> Tim.
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