How to display UTF-8 data in Lua script for wireshark

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I've been trying to represent binary in Japanese decoding by UTF-8, but still haven't figured out how to do it properly. Here is the codes.

vps_proto = Proto("vps", "VPS Packet")
Name_F = ProtoField.string("Name", "Name")
vps_proto.fields = {Name_F}

function RequestAccountPayloadParse(decoded_buf, pinfo, subtree)
    local PayloadNameRange = decoded_buf(0, 20)
    local PayloadName = PayloadNameRange:string(ENC_UTF_8)

    local payloadPacTree = subtree:add(decoded_buf(), pinfo, subtree)
    payloadPacTree:set_text("Payload")

    payloadPacTree:set_text:add(Name_F, PayloadNameRange, PayloadName)
end

The results showed in wireshark don't contain proper Japanese characters as seen below,

🔻Payload
    Name: \350\213\227\...

which is supposed to be like

🔻Payload
    Name: 山田太郎...

Could you find out the problems for that? Thank you.

Christopher Maynard · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-18 19:09:05Z

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Try replacing these lines:

Name_F = ProtoField.string("Name", "Name")

local PayloadName = PayloadNameRange:string(ENC_UTF_8)

With these:

Name_F = ProtoField.string("vps.Name", "Name", base.UNICODE)

local PayloadName = PayloadNameRange:raw()

See also: wireshark lua string:byte() error

answered Feb 18, 2022 at 19:09

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Kosuke Over a year ago

It worked out with these lines. Thank you very much.

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