Bugzilla – Bug 12261
Non-Ascii SSID shows '__' not character set
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:12:29 UTC
SSID's with non ascii characters show up on the Fab4 as '__' instead of the correct character Examples of some characters that fail: û ü ë Æ ç à ------------- NOTE: selecting the SSID will still connect you to the proper network, the bug here is that the characters don't show properly
Special chars in SSID will show as '?' in the GUI. Some background: An SSID consists of simple 8 bit ASCII chars (not UTF-8) and the upper half of the ASCII table can be many things - it could be pseudo graphical chars or umlauts or ... Simple from an SSID it's not possible to determine what the user has entered on it's AP. For instance a 'û' is reported back from the wireless driver as '{', on a Mac it shows as small circle, etc.
Moving to the product SqueezePlay because this bug appears to apply to any player based on that application code. Feel free to move it back if it's specific to the single original product.
Felix, can this be closed now?
Felix notes that connecting to these SSIDs should *work*, however it's the *display* of these characters that's difficult. The ASCII character set above 127 is not strictly defined, in any case.