[wpa_supplicant] essid with non-ascii characters

Nicolas Cavallari Nicolas.Cavallari at lri.fr
Mon Jun 25 17:47:42 EDT 2012


On 25/06/2012 22:37, LuX wrote:
> Priority group 0 id=0 ssid='Wifi Ch__teau d'Olonne'
> [...]
> BSS: Add new id 11 BSSID 00:24:a8:aa:a1:b0 SSID 'Wifi Ch_teau d'Olonne'
> [...]
> 11: 00:24:a8:aa:a1:b0 ssid='Wifi Ch_teau d'Olonne' wpa_ie_len=0
rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1 skip - SSID mismatch

Your configuration file is UTF-8 encoded, whereas the ESSID of the AP is
latin1/latin9-encoded. So the 'â' (\xc3\xa2) in your configuration file
does not match the \xe2 in the ESSID.

Regards
--
[mandatory joke about latin9 users still living in a castle omitted, as
this is maybe the case]


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