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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Request for RFC regarding string handling

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:21:43 -0700
On Oct 28, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Ed Beroset <beroset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't have a Grand Unified String Theory handy, but can think of some requirements for it.  One is that it may need to be able to render a number of different encodings, including the various Unicode variations, ASCII, and maybe some others such as KOI8 and maybe even EBCDIC.

No "maybe" about it; we already have an ENC_ value for EBCDIC, and protocols that use it.

Some of the SMS encodings might be useful as well.