SSID with non-ASCII octets

BlinkUp
#1

There’s no character set associated with an SSID; any length of 0-32 octets should be valid. BUT my Imp will not Blinkup up and connect if non ASCII characters (e.g. accented letters) are present in the SSID. Is this a bug?

Accented words are not passé :wink:

#2

What client are you using to blinkup?

#3

Something you designed, an iPhone 4s :wink:

#4

Hex can be used in blinkup for the WEP key, I’ve had to do this for some old AP’s.
Perhaps the SSID can also be done in hex.

#5

How does the Iphone app work – do you have to type in the SSID or can it detect the one that IOS itself is using? If you have to type it in, I wonder whether the text-entry widget in the Iphone app is returning the accented character in Unicode-NFD but the actual SSID is Unicode-NFC…

Peter

#6

@peter It allows for both entry methods.

@Isidro I’ve tested this and am having the same issue. Will file a bug report. If you need a workaround in the meantime, you could blink up to an ASCII-named network and use imp.setwificonfiguration() to reconfigure to the desired SSID.

#7

@Isidro also, thanks for letting us know about this problem :slight_smile:

#8

Thanks for the tip Gino. It’s not a critical problem for me, I just thought I should flag it up.