Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Unicode strings ...

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:25:52 +1000 (EST)
Richard Sharpe writes:

> > Hmm... do you mean strings of wide characters or some other encoding (
> > utf-8?).
> 
> Good question. I was thinking specifically of what MS puts on the wire, 
> which I think is wide characters, but we need to think this issue 
> through. Internally, Samba will be using UTF-8, I think, (although, this 
> is irrelevant) and there may be other protocols that use other forms of 
> UNICODE.

NT actually uses UCS2-LE (i.e 2 byte characters, little endian)
on the wire for the rpc calls.  So it's a bit more complicated
than having ustring calls.  )-:


Tim.