Problems with Access Point names that contain non-ascii characters

[erikos]

1266831855.060894 DEBUG root: ----> AP name=dbus.ByteArray('k\xfcnstliche welten', variant_level=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/erikos/sugar-jhbuild/install/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe/desktop/meshbox.py", line 1079, in _ap_props_changed_cb
    self._add_ap_to_network(ap)
  File "/home/erikos/sugar-jhbuild/install/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe/desktop/meshbox.py", line 1056, in _add_ap_to_network
    icon = WirelessNetworkView(ap)
  File "/home/erikos/sugar-jhbuild/install/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe/desktop/meshbox.py", line 115, in __init__
    self._palette = self._create_palette()
  File "/home/erikos/sugar-jhbuild/install/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe/desktop/meshbox.py", line 162, in _create_palette
    logging.debug("----> AP UNI name=%r", unicode(self._name, 'utf8'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-6: unsupported Unicode code range

This has effects on not displaying the AP and that log can not display the shell.log anymore.

[walter]

This seems critical in that it even interfere with logging. Unfortunately, it won't make 0.88.

[walter]

Erikos ever hopeful it will make 0.88...

[erikos]

The issue is handled in #2023.

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 0.88 deleted