On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:49 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > try UTF-8 validation UTF-8 validation is easy, but it would've been easierhad they actually put in the BOM character, :). > try validation from the encoding in LANG Pretty slim chances that whoever configured the wireless network is using the same encoding as whoever configured LANG. > fall back to a lot of ? for unprintables Either that or use "byte value = unicode value" (ie. 0x01 = , 0x7F = , 0x80 = €, 0xFF = ÿ, etc.) and let Pango render the characters (to at least differentiate the characters from each other and from the "?" character). > For example, if I live in Shanghai, I should be able to make my AP SSID > some native character like 虚. However, if I live in Central Europoe > and for some reason I use ISO 8859-15 (or whatever it is) I'd probably > like my ň to show up. I believe NM should try at least a few ways of > parsing the SSID (not too many) and just fall back to ? in the end. > This is what it currently does, but apparently somewhat badly. Or go upstream and have IEEE settle it, :-p. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
