[wpa_supplicant] essid with non-ascii characters

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 02:10:51PM +0200, Jouke Witteveen wrote:
> The network is supposedly named "Wifi Château d'Olonne", thus the
> experiment shows that wpa_cli substitutes the 'â' with a '_'.

If it happens to be encoded as a single character in the SSID.. It could
also end up showing up as "__" if multi-byte encoding was used.

> If it
> would just output whatever bytes are in the SSID, the result of the
> printf would be usable in shell scripts to connect to the network.

SSID is not a string and it cannot be printed as such. It could even
include things like '\0' in it. If you want to get the raw SSID binary
data, you can get it from the beginning of the "ie" line in the BSS
ctrl_iface command output as a hexdump (starting with two octet header
if IE id/len).

> The only problems I see with outputting the SSID as-is, is with '\n'
> and '\t'. Both mess up the output of `wpa_cli scan_results`. One way
> to solve this problem is to have ' ' match all three of them (spaces,
> newlines and tabs), another is by introducing escaping.

The proper way of handling the SSID is to copy the exact binary data
as-is rather try to pretend that it can be handled as text. As such, the
scan_results output is not suitable for this purpose.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA