[isf-wifidog] Macintosh Leopard and SSIDs names with accents

[Don Druce]

Thnaks again Bruno

I was being doubted here when I made that observation.  I have a Mac, 
but it is not running Leopard, so I could not confirm.

Don

Bruno Remy wrote:
> Don Druce a écrit :
>
>   
>> Has anyone else run across this.
>>
>> Using a Macintosh with Leopard, trying to access a router using accented 
>> characters in its SSID.  The router is not seen by the Macintosh - other 
>> nearby routers with no accents are all seen..  If you go to diagnostics, 
>> it shows it as encrypted and wants its password.
>>
>> I am NOT positive that is being caused by the accented SSID, but I am 
>> pretty darn sure.  I will be going back later to change the name by 
>> removing the accents and see what happens/
>>
>> Have ISF received any reports of this problem ?
>>
>> Thanks
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> Yes, it's due to the accentuated characters in SSID : I confim that.
> Here, at Quebec City, since we have enconter the same problem on 
> Macintosh and Linux machines, we are setting all our SSID without 
> accentuated characters "ZAP - node name".
>
> An other important tip about SSID specs : SSID name string should not 
> exceed 32 characters (if then, the SSID will not be available).
>
> Bruno
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