Bug#579392: closed by Stéphane Aulery <saulery at free.fr> (bluez: my USB bluetooth dongle gets detected, but I cannot activate it)

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Stéphane,

> Well, either bluetoothd gets improved to also handle non-UTF-8 device
> names
> or bluetoothd does g_utf8_validate as soon as it reads out the device
> names,
> converts faulty strings to UTF-8 and immediately writes them back to
> the
> device. I managed to write a patch that works like this for hciconfig,
> but not
> for the daemon...

The patch is here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=127315737929319&w=2

So, if you confirm that the bug still isn't fixed yet, why do you close
it then?

- Fabian