Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] unicode in "Packet Details" pane

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:16:39 -0700
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Jerry Giant wrote:
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Hi, i am a ethereal newbie and trying to sniff my jabber messages over
the network. As jabber packets are as xml/unicode so i could not read
them as an ASCII char from ethereal's packet details window, anything
could help?

Ethereal doesn't support displaying arbitrary Unicode text in the summary or details window. As the note added above to your mail notes, little if any Ethereal development is being done any more - the core developers are all working on the Wireshark project. (For details on the change, see http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q1.2.)

As such, Ethereal will probably never support it. I would like to add support for that to Wireshark, although that would probably not work with the GTK+ 1.2[.x] version of Wireshark (GTK+ 2.x supports UTF-8-encoded Unicode in its text widgets). I don't know when I would have time to do that, however (it involves changes to the programming interfaces inside Wireshark to allow dissectors of protocols to specify the encoding of strings in messages, to handle both UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 encodings).

As far as I know, Jabber encodes the Unicode as UTF-8, not UTF-16, so ASCII text in the XML would be encoded as ASCII. Thus, the ASCII characters in Jabber XML will be displayed correctly; it's only the non-ASCII text that won't display.

If the ASCII text in your Jabber messages isn't displaying correctly with whatever version of Ethereal you're using, please upgrade to the latest version of Wireshark:

	http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

If the latest version of Wireshark also doesn't display the ASCII text in your Jabber messages correctly, file a bug on the Wireshark Bugzilla:

	http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/

and, if at all possible, include a capture file containing your Jabber messages (by "capture file" I mean the raw capture file Ethereal/Wireshark produces, *NOT* the result of exporting a capture to a text file).
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