Re: [Bluez-devel] non-ASCII chars in device names

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:34 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> > I got this report for gnome-bluetooth some time ago:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380408
> > 
> > I fixed the problem altogether by replacing this code by D-Bus code
> > calling hcid. The problem is that the name of the device only shows up
> > the very first time the device is discovered, and it seems to me that
> > the cache is busted:
> > 
> > In hcid/storage.c:
> >         for (i = 0; i < 248 && name[i]; i++)
> >                 if ((unsigned char) name[i] < 32 || name[i] == 127)
> >                         str[i] = '.';
> >                 else
> >                         str[i] = name[i];
> > 
> > Why? If the data is correct UTF-8, it could be saved as-is in the file,
> > minus any tabs, unbreakable spaces, or line feeds.
> 
> I don't see any problem with this code. It only replaces all ASCII
> control characters (including delete). So this must be an issue with
> still having the old name in the cache.

It wasn't the old cache (as I delete it, to be sure) but an old
bluez-utils (3.7) that had this problem. Works fine with 3.9.

Cheers

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> 


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