Vector35 / Vector35/binaryninja-api

"UTF8 string with all codepages" renderer

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Component: UI Effort: Low Impact: Low UI: Strings
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Description

What is the feature you'd like to have?
I want to be able to create a string variable and say "hey, this string is UTF8 and you should use whatever codepages necessary to render it" without having to set all the codepages on my whole analysis.

Is your feature request related to a problem?
I have a string with some UTF8 and it is not rendering

Are any alternative solutions acceptable?
Current workaround: reopen file with options and enable the various relevant codepages. In my case, that was Geometric Shapes".

Additional Information:
Binary ref: 539ac209-d40f-4411-9e27-bf58ce286f34

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Research direction

Start with the UTF8 string renderer request and inspect the binary identified by Binary ref 539ac209-d40f-4411-9e27-bf58ce286f34 to reproduce the missing rendering behavior. Done should allow a string to request UTF8 rendering with the required codepages without changing whole-analysis options.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
devtools, reverse-engineering
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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