Feature Request - allow the use of UTF-8 characters in SSID

spacehuhn / esp8266_beaconSpam

Creates up to a thousand WiFi access points with custom SSIDs.

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Feature Request - allow the use of UTF-8 characters in SSID #24

Open WhiteUmbr3lla opened 5 years ago

WhiteUmbr3lla commented 5 years ago

would be nice to use UTF-8 in SSIDs

caglorithm commented 5 years ago

I got stuck trying to solve this. Has anyone managed so far?

WhiteUmbr3lla commented 5 years ago

so i looked in to this a while back and this is what i figured out:

it is possible to send UTF-8 SSID (this was made possible after IEEE 802.11-2012)
from what i seen the library esp8266wifi does not support it in it's current state ( i hope i am wrong about this part)
changing to a library that supports this (have not found one) will require to rewrite the whole project due to obvious reasons

but maybe you tried this from a different angle can you share your progress?

caglorithm commented 5 years ago

Thanks for answering. I've tried several things. Entered UTF-8 characters directly into the code, entered the hex code etc but neither worked. This guy forked the code and just pasted emojis into the SSID names and it seems to work but I couldn't get it run on my ESP8266... 😎

RvdHout commented 5 years ago

https://github.com/m13253/wifijam/blob/master/esp8266/wifijam/wifijam.ino