Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Some problems when building Wireshark from source(with more error detail)

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

tan tan wrote:

> packet-wbxml.c(5216) : error C2220: warning treated as error - no 
> 'object' file
> generated
> packet-wbxml.c(5216) : warning C4819: The file contains a character that 
> cannot
> be represented in the current code page (936). Save the file in Unicode 
> format to prevent data loss

That file contained a byte with the value 0x96; it appears it was 
intended to be a dash or hyphen of some sort - 0x96 is an en dash in 
Windows code page 1252.

Your system is, I suspect, set up to use a Chinese code page, and 0x96 
might, for example, be the first byte of a two-byte character, but the 
byte after it was a blank (0x20), which is probably not a valid second 
byte of a two-byte character.

I checked in a change to replace the 0x96 with '-'; that was the only 
non-ASCII character in the file.  That should fix the problem - try 
compiling the current top-of-tree SVN snapshot.

We should avoid using non-ASCII characters in source files, to avoid 
problems such as this.  Unfortunately, that could be a problem for 
people with names containing accented letters - another person, probably 
also building on Windows in a Chinese locale, had similar problems, 
which I fixed by fixing the files, but one of them was a problem in a 
comment, so it appears that we even need to avoid non-ASCII characters 
in comments.