On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
Some Wireshark source files contain non-ASCII values which the
Microsoft
compiler doesn't like. We've been trying to clean them up but haven't
finished.
...and I've added an item to the "Portability" section of the
README.developer file saying "don't use non-ASCII characters in source
files".
Development environments don't all use the same character encoding; on
UN*X, more and more systems are going with UTF-8, but LANG etc. could
still be set for a different encoding, and, on Windows, I don't know
whether it's possible to get the compiler/IDEs/etc. to support UTF-8 -
UTF-16, perhaps, but I don't know what UN*X compilers/editors/etc.
would support that, and I have the impression that if a file isn't
UTF-16 it's some non-UTF-8 code page.
