Return-Path: Subject: Re: WRT non-UTF-8 device names From: Bastien Nocera To: Fabian Greffrath Cc: "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <1274432516.4068.29.camel@vfrodo> References: <1274432516.4068.29.camel@vfrodo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:38:39 +0100 Message-ID: <1274791119.27274.17718.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:01 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Dear Bluez list, > > I am experiencing the following issues with the bluez 4.63-2 and > gnome-bluetooth 2.30.0-1 packages from Debian unstable: Stupid question, but do you use a UTF-8 locale, or not? The output of "locale" as root would probably help. My guess is that we make assumptions as to a user entry being valid UTF-8 somewhere, when it could be non-UTF-8. As for your problem, I don't think we want to allow non-UTF-8 device names anyhow. They're not valid spec.