To solve this problem, the character "รณ" was converted from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 and it works perfectly: iwconfig wlan0 essid $(echo -ne "chap\xf3lin")
An example is attached. It would be great if this bug could be fixed. Thanks. ** Attachment added: "wireless-non-unicode.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14528033/wireless-non-unicode.txt -- Problems while trying to connect to a Wireless Network using special characters as ESSID on Ubuntu 8.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230121 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs