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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] non-ASCII stuff in manuf

From: didier <dgautheron@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:59:48 +0100
Hi,
Le mercredi 10 novembre 2010 ᅵ 10:01 +0100, Anders Broman a ᅵcrit :
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Boehne
> Sent: den 10 november 2010 09:54
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] non-ASCII stuff in manuf
> 
> On 10/26/2010 11:32 AM, Thomas Boehne wrote:
> >> I contacted them a couple of times concerning this, but the requests 
> >> would either not be answered at all or were forwarded to people that 
> >> could not fix the problem. I will try it again today, or probably call 
> >> them until I finally reach somebody that can help.
> >
> >After sending a bunch of emails to IEEE explaining the problem in detail, they finally changed the database 
> >entries today.
> >
> >The bad news is that they are now _both_ displayed incorrectly on the web page (if the browser decides to 
> >display the page as unicode).
> >
> >The good new is that they are both displayed _correctly_ in wireshark, since make-manuf decodes the database as >iso-8859-1.
> >
> >Could someone please run make-manuf to update manuf and check it in?
> >
> >Best regards
> >Thomas Bï¿œhne
> 
> It will be automatically run on Sunday...
On the other hand after all this hard work it'd be nice to fix
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4102

g_strlcpy doesn't work with UTF8 and these 
'Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango...'
are a pain.

Didier