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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 53827: /trunk/epan/ /trunk/epan/diss

From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:30:37 +0100
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:20:58PM +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Isn't UNICODE a bit to broad a name here? Wouldn't STR_UTF8 be a better
> name as there are different unicode encodings around?

Well I'd rather avoid using any unicode encoding name here, because some people can think: 
  "Hey, I'm using UTF-8, so I just put STR_UTF8 here", or
  "Hey, my protocol is using UCS-2, so why I need to put STR_UTF8 here?"

STR_UNICODE is broad, which is good.

Kuba.