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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] UTF8 vs. locale in error messages (bug 5715)

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:00:54 -0600
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:01:14AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:

> I don't know what the various terminal emulators for Windows, e.g. 
> cmd.exe, do.

The popular SecureCRT terminal emulator defaults to "default" (same as 
local system) character encoding, at least on Windows systems.  This is 
not compatible with UTF-8 in my experience.