wicd

Unicode Exception of 'network' in wicd-curses.check_for_wireless

Bug #1289947 reported by Mek Karpeles
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Mek Karpeles

Bug Description

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open wicd-curses
2. Select a network containing unicode
3. Close wicd-curses
4. Attempt to re-open wicd-curses

Results in crash & python traceback, error decoding Unicode character. Specific test case, create network with right single quote (’).

Solution:

    # Line 175, check_for_wireless() in wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py
    network = wireless.GetCurrentNetwork(iwconfig) # becomes ...
    network = wireless.GetCurrentNetwork(iwconfig).decode('utf-8')

Tags: unicode
Mek Karpeles (michael-karpeles)
Changed in wicd:
assignee: nobody → Mek Karpeles (michael-karpeles)
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