On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:57 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On 9/5/07, Richi Plana <myfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > There's actually no 8-bit ASCII. People sometimes use that to mean > Windows codepage 1252 > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_code_page). > > > Anyway, it's a NetworkManager issue. They would know what the drivers are returning, > > right? > > The drivers may well just be returning whatever bytes were sent over > the wire. Now, in any *sane* protocol, the protocol docs would define > what encoding the bytes over the wire are in, but it took a very long > time for people to realize this, so it wouldn't shock me if 802.11b > doesn't specify. Then you'd basically have to do experiments with > common access points to see how they encode things, then add > appropriate heuristics to NetworkManager. The drivers return a 32-byte array containing arbitrary values to NetworkManager, which is technically correct. It's up to NM and userspace to deal with this somehow. 802.11 specifies nothing about encoding or anything other than a max length of 32 bytes. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
