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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Adding Hebrew support to SMB

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:57:58 -0700

On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Guy Shtub wrote:

else if((uchar & 0xFF00) == 0x500) {

  // 1264 is the offset between Unicode and ASCII in Hebrew

Does that actually *work*?

I.e., does it, for example, cause Hebrew to display correctly in the GUI? GTK+ 2.x, at least, expects to be handed UTF-8 strings, not ISO 8859/n strings or strings in any other encoding.