hello
I am unable to connect to a wifi network with emoji in the SSID. SSID is displayed as \xF0\x9F\x98\x93 via the network manager. Attempting to connect via the GUI gets a "invalid argument" error
attempting to define it within the wpa_supplicant.conf doesn't work either, I'm assuming the \ is interpreted as an escape character.
also have tried installing symbola as well as ttf-ancient-fonts
using latest full release of jessie on a pi zero. wlan is able to connect to another open network but I want it on my network.
any ideas?
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Re: emoji/unicode SSID
I'm having the same problem, did you ever find a solution?
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Re: emoji/unicode SSID
I edited /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and put the bytes of the SSID without quotes.
If your SSID has a mix of text and unicode, run `sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep SSID`
Copy the SSID from the iwlist output and use the python code in http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/55556 to turn it into bytes. Use xxd <filename> to view the bytes in the file. Edit wpa_supplicant.conf with the new SSID values.
If your SSID has a mix of text and unicode, run `sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep SSID`
Copy the SSID from the iwlist output and use the python code in http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/55556 to turn it into bytes. Use xxd <filename> to view the bytes in the file. Edit wpa_supplicant.conf with the new SSID values.
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network={
ssid=f09f9893
psk="secret"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}