Hello, On Tue, 08 May 2012 21:53:06 +0200, Stuart Pook wrote:
> Package: wicd > Version: 1.7.2.3-1 > Severity: normal Please upgrade to 1.7.2.4-2 and try again. > [..] > I used wicd to connect to a wireless network that wicd showed as having > the ESSID "réseau sans fil". The connection failed with an authentification > error. > > While wicd was running "iwlist scanning" gave: > > Cell 07 - Address: 00:0C:F6:xx:xx:xx > Channel:11 > Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) > Quality=55/70 Signal level=-55 dBm > Encryption key:on > ESSID:"r\xE9seau sans fil" > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s > 18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s > Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s > Mode:Master > Extra: Last beacon: 2524ms ago > IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 > Group Cipher : CCMP > Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP > Authentication Suites (1) : PSK > > Note that the ESSID contains an e-acute encoded in iso_8859-1 (latin1). I strongly suggest you to switch to UTF-8. :) > Wicd fails to connect. > > I ran iwconfig while wicd was trying to connect and saw > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"r\xC3\xA9seau sans fil" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated > Tx-Power=20 dBm > Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Power Management:off > > Note that the ESSID contains an e-acute encoded in utf-8. wicd has read > an accented character in iso 8859-1 and has transformed it into utf8. This > is, of course, wrong. wicd should use the ESSID as reported by iwlist. I honestly use UTF-8 on all my systems, so I need a bit of assistance to debug this. Could you please run: $ python -c "import locale; e = locale.getpreferredencoding(); print e, repr(u'\xe9'.decode(e))" (all on one line) and report the output here? I probably need you to test many things, so... be prepared! :) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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