emoji/unicode SSID

[quixotic120]

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?

[jona1980]

I'm having the same problem, did you ever find a solution?

[doncoleman]

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.

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network={
    ssid=f09f9893
    psk="secret"
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}