GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 331685
non-ASCII WLAN SSID breaks network-admin
Last modified: 2012-11-24 20:29:28 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"
Carlos, maybe you could comment on the issue and the patch? ;)
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.