Wiki source code of Does MIB Designer support UTF-8 (UTF-16) for SMI specification files?
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| 1 | MIB Designer supports UTF character sets, because it is written in Java. You can enable UTF-8, for example, by running MIB Designer with | ||
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| 3 | {{code}} | ||
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| 5 | java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar mibdesigner.jar | ||
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| 7 | {{/code}} | ||
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| 9 | However, SMI does only allow 7bit-ASCII characters and | ||
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| 11 | * carriage-return (CR) | ||
| 12 | * line-feed (LF) | ||
| 13 | * tabulators (e.g. TAB) | ||
| 14 | * spaces | ||
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| 16 | for all text enclosed in double quotes (") within a MIB file. | ||
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| 18 | As a consequence, MIB Designer will **refuse to compile/edit files with UTF-8** specific characters. Instead it will display an error message and mark the offending charcter in the MIB compiler log and file text. |