[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#913156: Bug#913156: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Bryce,

Bryce Handerson wrote:
> After some debugging myself it seems to happen when I have my iPhone's
> hotspot on with the iw scan SSID below
> 
>     SSID: Bryce\xe2\x80\x99s iPhone

Thanks! So it's not an unexpected encoding as I suspected but correct
UTF-8. "\xe2\x80\x99" is actually the "’" glyph/character.

> When I turn off the hotspot it opens correctly,  However the weird thing.
> is I can open wicd-curses with the hotspot on and connect to it (which the
> interface displays correctly). Once it connects AND gets an IP it instantly
> crashes.  It is only when I am connected to the hotspot, have an IP address
> and try to open wicd-curses that it fails.

That's interesting. Thanks for these details. Sounds to me as if it
generally works, but at one or two places, there's some Unicode
handling missing.

Will see if I can find that spot.

		Regards, Axel
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