On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:55 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 12:44 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > Shouldn't those octet character strings be converted to Unicode strings, > > > anyway? I thought that Gtk (via Pango) had displaying international > > > character down pat. > > > > In order to "convert octet character strings" into Unicode and display > > them, you have to know what encoding the strings are in. Bytes are > > just bytes until you have an encoding. > > I was under the assumption they were 8-bit ASCII strings. Anyway, it's a > NetworkManager issue. They would know what the drivers are returning, > right? Right; it is an NM issue. If NM crashes or misbehaves with a weird SSID, we need to fix it. As specified in the 802.11 standard, the ESSID is a 32-byte byte array, there are no restrictions made as to what content that 32-bytes may contain. It is up to the program to attempt to coerce that value into something to present to the user. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
