Package: wicd-daemon
Version: 1.7.0+ds1-5
Severity: normal

At a hotel, the ESSID was "Réseau de Hotel du Nord". (It was an "Apple
Airport Something" access point.)

"iwlist scan" showed the essid as "R\xC3\xA9seau de Hotel du Nord" and
wicd saved it in the wpasupplicant configuration in this "\x" escaped
format ("R\xC3\xA9seau de Hotel du Nord") while the UTF-8 encoded ESSID
("Réseau de Hotel du Nord") would have been the right format.

It seems as if wicd should decode the "\x" escapes in ESSIDs back to
real characters/bytes when saving the wpasupplicant configuration to
make such setups work.

I use wicd-curses to select and configure the wireless network. Not sure
if the bug is in wicd-daemon or in wicd-curses. Please feel free to
reassign the bug appropriately.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (110, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.112        add and remove users and groups
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]      0.149        Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  dbus                        1.2.24-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.32       Debian configuration management sy
ii  iproute                     20100519-3   networking and traffic control too
ii  iputils-ping                3:20100418-1 Tools to test the reachability of 
ii  isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-clie 4.1.1-P1-7   ISC DHCP client
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  net-tools                   1.60-23      The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  psmisc                      22.11-1      utilities that use the proc file s
ii  python                      2.6.5-5      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-dbus                 0.83.1-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-gobject              2.21.1-2     Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-iniparse             0.3.2-1      Module to access and modify config
ii  python-wicd                 1.7.0+ds1-5  wired and wireless network manager
ii  udhcpc                      1:1.15.3-1   Provides the busybox DHCP client i
ii  wireless-tools              30~pre9-5    Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.10-2     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii  wicd-cli [wicd-client]       1.7.0+ds1-5 wired and wireless network manager
ii  wicd-curses [wicd-client]    1.7.0+ds1-5 wired and wireless network manager

Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
ii  pm-utils                      1.3.0-2    utilities and scripts for power ma

Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.112        add and remove users and groups
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]      0.149        Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  dbus                        1.2.24-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.32       Debian configuration management sy
ii  iproute                     20100519-3   networking and traffic control too
ii  iputils-ping                3:20100418-1 Tools to test the reachability of 
ii  isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-clie 4.1.1-P1-7   ISC DHCP client
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  net-tools                   1.60-23      The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  psmisc                      22.11-1      utilities that use the proc file s
ii  python                      2.6.5-5      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-dbus                 0.83.1-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2               2.17.0-2     GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gtk2                 2.17.0-2     Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support              1.0.9        automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-urwid                0.9.9.1-1    curses-based UI/widget library for
ii  udhcpc                      1:1.15.3-1   Provides the busybox DHCP client i
ii  wireless-tools              30~pre9-5    Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.10-2     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

wicd-cli depends on no packages.

Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on:
ii  python                        2.6.5-5    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-urwid                  0.9.9.1-1  curses-based UI/widget library for

Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
ii  python                        2.6.5-5    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support                1.0.9      automated rebuilding support for P



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