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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Replace TRUE/FALSE with proper ENC_* in proto_tree_add_item(

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 12:34:01 -0700
On Oct 4, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Tony Trinh wrote:

> In any case, I don't think it ever makes sense to specify "ENC_NA" with an encoding (e.g., ENC_ASCII | ENC_NA = "Use ASCII encoding" and "Encoding doesn't apply here"). I would only expect to see ENC_NA on its own, but I could be wrong. 

For many, but not all, possible character encodings, the endianness doesn't matter, so one could consider it "not applicable" in that sense.