Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] wireshark-0.99.7 compiling error, The file contains a character that cannot be r

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graham Bloice wrote:

> As per the VS2005 help:
>
> > C4819 occurs when an ANSI source file is compiled on a system with a 
> > codepage that cannot represent all characters in the file.
> >
> > To resolve C4819, save the file in Unicode format.
>
> So, you either use a codepage that does support ANSI, or you somehow 
> convert all the files to unicode which would be a real pain when ever 
> you update your sources to the latest.

...or we find all the non-ASCII characters in the files (or, at least, 
the ones that cause problems; I don't know whether MSVC has problems 
with comments) and get rid of them.  I've removed non-ASCII characters 
from at least some character strings - they don't belong there, as there's

	1) no guarantee that they can be displayed on all platforms (especially 
with GTK+ 1.2.x, which doesn't use UTF-8)

and

	2) no guarantee that they'll be interpreted the way you want by the 
compiler (will it interpret them as UTF-8, or ISO 8859/1, or some other 
ISO 8859/x, or some EUC double-byte character set, or some Windows code 
page, or...?).