Bug#702702: debian-installer: wireless network ssids with ', ' in them are misunderstood.

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 01:23:07PM +0000, Neil Wallace wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: 7.0 rc1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: d-i
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>         I have 2 wireless networks, with SSIDs of "Gables, Daviot" and "Gables,
> guest"
> 
>         During network configuration This was presented to me as:
>         select the wireless network to use during the installation process
> 
>                 Gables
>                 guest
>                 Gables
>                 Daviot
> 
> 
>         and I failed to connect, no matter what I tried (even entering the ssid
> manually, and escaping the ,)
> 
> regards

While SSIDs can have spaced in them as far as I understand it, but the
number of devices and systems that break when you do it means that it
probably isn't worth it.

This doesn't mean it isn't worth fixing a bug in code that doesn't handle
it of course.  I still would never create such an SSID myself though.
I don't like to cause problems when I don't have to.

You probably have to escape the space, not the comma when entering
it manually.

-- 
Len Sorensen