Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] While we're on the subject of new frametypes...

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:54:36 +1100
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:14:42PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 04:22:39PM +1100, Tim Potter wrote:
> > How about a new frametype for unicode strings?
> 
> Big-endian, or little-endian?  You could tell "proto_tree_add_item()"
> what the byte order is; "proto_tree_add_ustring()", however, would
> probably need to take a byte order argument.
> 
> There's currently a commented-out FT_UCS2_LE in "epan/ftypes/ftypes.h",
> for 2-byte little-endian Unicode.  We could perhaps implement that.

I might duck the issue and implement the FT_UCS2_LE frametype.

There are certainly lots of issues to think about, especially with
regards to making things work on win32 as well as Unix, not to mention
the various versions of gtk.


Tim.