Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] non-ASCII characters
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:21:07 -0800
On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Andreas wrote:

> I write a dissector for a protocol that transport measurement values for pressure and temperature and so on. I would like to display the values with proto_tree_add_float() with the correct unit. But the °C symbol as well as µA is not displayed correctly.
> 
> Is there a way display this character set specific characters in Wireshark? How should I encode these characters that the GTK UI displays the nice "°C" so that I can avoid "degrees centigrade"?

Try encoding them in UTF-8 (*NOT* UTF-16/UCS-2!); that might work.

Of course, getting the Windows C compiler to like it is another matter.  You might have to explicitly encode it, e.g. "\302\260C" for "°C".