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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: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:47:20 -0700
On Oct 12, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> [...elided...] I *might* be inclined to go with ENC_ASCII as the first step even though it'd require more changes (e.g., to protocols where the encoding is UTF-8).

Or, to put it another way: going with ENC_ASCII is the conservative solution, scripts should go with the conservative solution, humans know the details better and can fix things up afterwards.