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Bug 331685 - non-ASCII WLAN SSID breaks network-admin
non-ASCII WLAN SSID breaks network-admin
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-system-tools
Classification: Deprecated
Component: network-admin
2.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Carlos Garnacho
Carlos Garnacho
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-18 15:36 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2012-11-24 20:29 UTC
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-02-18 15:36:10 UTC
That bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/27171

"Enter a non-ascii SSID in the network manager GUI. The resulting entry in /etc/network/interfaces will be encoded in UTF-8 - but is has to be ISO-8859-1 in order to work.

Related issue: if there is a network available with a non-ascii SSID, the scanning fails, and no networks are listed in the drop-down menu. I have an ugly
patch for this scanning, but it does not fix the original issue.

(Breezy and Dapper flight-2)

http://librarian.launchpad.net/1512851/network.pl.patch
Created an attachment (id=5348)
fixes scanning for drop-down menu of networks

Without the patch, these error messages appear:

$ network-admin
Entity: line 7: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xE4 0x62 0x75 0x3C
    <essid>f\uffffbu</essid>
     ^

** (network-admin:9810): CRITICAL **: wireless_essid_populate_model: assertion `doc != NULL' failed"
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2006-09-09 12:59:22 UTC
Carlos, maybe you could comment on the issue and the patch? ;)
Comment 2 André Klapper 2012-11-24 20:29:28 UTC
According to its developer(s), gnome-system-tools is not under active development anymore. Functionality has been mostly integrated into GNOME Control Center / "[System] Settings".

It is unlikely that there will be any further active development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping - Please feel
free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility
for active development again.