https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384410
Bug ID: 384410
Summary: nm-applet fails to connect to APs whose SSID can't be
decoded with system locale
Product: plasma-nm
Version: 5.10.5
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: jgrul...@redhat.com
Reporter: l-softw...@lausen.nl
Target Milestone: ---
If an AP name cannot be decoded with the system locale (or fallback locale),
nm-applet will display gibberish instead of the AP name. Clicking connect will
fail to connect to the network.
Instead, if the AP name cannot be decoded, the BSSID should be displayed in
nm-applet, which would make it possible to still connect to the network.
For example, in greater China region some AP names may use the gb18030
encoding, which cannot be decoded with en_US.UTF-8 locale. The user should not
be required to switch his system locale to zh_CN.gb18030 locale just to connect
to networks for which the AP name cannot be decoded.
Secondly, nm-applet should use LC_CTYPE to determine the encoding (and list of
fallback encodings [1]) used for decoding AP names.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784415 contains more background
information.
[1]:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/libnm-core/nm-utils.c?id=a47153f5b8a114ce1f0d226b33d0ad6d6ec7f150#n76
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