Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd/gui.py", line 336, in connect_hidden
    self.refresh_networks(None, True, answer)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd/gui.py", line 501, in refresh_networks
    wireless.SetHiddenNetworkESSID(noneToString(hidden))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.UnicodeEncodeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line 963, in SetHiddenNetworkESSID
    self.hidden_essid = str(misc.Noneify(essid))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)