Re: Non-ascii characters in SSID crashes NM

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:34 +0100, Kristoffer Gleditsch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Martin H�arhoy gmail com> writes:
> 
> > The mentioned user runs FC3 and NM-0.3.4-4.1.0.fc3, but i though
> > this was worth mentioning anyway, in case the bug is still present
> > in the current versions.
> 
> Sounds like
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167517 .  There
> is a patch there as well, but I'm not sure why it hasn't been taken
> in.
> 
> NM people: Is the patch b0rken in some way?  Because of this bug,
> NetworkManager works for me in about half the places I try it.  I'd be
> willing to take a stab at patching it, too, but not until someone
> tells me what's wrong with the one already there. :)
> 
> (A weakness of the patch is that it assumes latin-1 as the only
> fallback charset.  I'm not sure what would be smarter - substituting
> all non-utf8 characters with "-" or something would be pretty ugly,
> but at least it would be the same ugly for everyone...)

Thanks for the reminder, I'll take a look today.

Dan