Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 13743: /trunk/epan/dissectors/: packet-ieee80211.c

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:

> Well, '\0' is a *valid* character in an SSID. Can the string display code
> deal with it?

Yes.  It displays it as \000.  But if the SSID has a \0 in it, is it a 
string of "characters" or is it a string of octets, i.e. should it just 
display it in hex?

> Also: Will it now start displaying those \xxx sequences?

Yes.  If "." is to be considered better than \xxx in that case, what 
makes an SSID different from any other type of string?  Should *all* 
strings use "." instead of \xxx?  If not, why not?