Cannot connect to wifi that has a name with non-english characters.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Name a wifi device using Korean characters(perhaps any cjk characters, but 
in my case, Korean)
2. Try to connect to it using your android device.  It will continuously spin 
and say connecting but never happens.  This is only for devices named with the 
Korean alphabet, not English.  Connecting with English-named wifi devices works 
fine.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Continuous connecting that never happens.  

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by garth...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2010 at 5:06

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I think this does not work in aosp either, so its an enhancement.
This certainly is some encoding issue, so someone with some background may look 
into that. Most certainly there is a mismatch about the scanned name and how it 
is saved into /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf by the framework.

If someone wants to do that, post on the mailinglist so we can provide further 
help.

Original comment by polyth...@gmail.com on 18 Sep 2010 at 2:40

• Changed state: NeedVolunteer
• Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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Is this working in 6.3-rc2?

Original comment by trmfrei...@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 3:36

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This is not working on 6.3-rc5.

Initial name: çlústers
What appeared: [some foreign char, perhaps chinese]sters

Will try to check what wpa_supplicant saved later.

Original comment by trmfrei...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2011 at 10:36

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This is what is present in wpa_supplicant:

ssid="笺sters"

Original comment by trmfrei...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2011 at 12:32

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It was the same that appeared on the screen.

Original comment by trmfrei...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2011 at 1:33

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wpa_supplicant doesn't seem to be able to parse non-ascii characters.
But from what I get in several forums thruought the web the problem concernes 
the wpa_supplicant, not android itself.

Quoting:
"
# ssid: SSID (mandatory); either as an ASCII string with double quotation or
#   as hex string; network name
"
from: 
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~testrad/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.example
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Original comment by migaxmoi...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2011 at 2:01

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Ok, I guess you can put the hex string...
So all you need is a converter. Maybe the input box for the ssid could see if 
there were some non ascii chars and convert them right away?

Original comment by migaxmoi...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2011 at 2:04