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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9229] Add new function in strutil.c to replace non-printab

Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:58:49 +0000

Comment # 8 on bug 9229 from
(In reply to comment #5)
> I saw that the new function has been committed with r52393
> 
> We can have sometime, in the flow with z/OS some part of the strucuture that
> are in EBCDIC (It's often the MQMID, that contain a part in EBCDIC and a
> part as bytes), although the whole packet is considered as ASCII. So I think
> it's a goodf thing to dipslay this part of the structure in EBCDIC and in
> ASCII, and replace non-printable char as dot, because we don't need the
> value of the BYTE part.

If part is EBCDIC and part is bytes, should they not be separate fields in
Wireshark, one FT_STRING and one FT_BYTES? Then there would not be enough
non-printing characters to need this patch?


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