Re: [Bluez-devel] Accented characters in friendly name properly handled in BlueZ?

Johan Hedberg
2007-01-08T18:39:07Z

Hi Pierre-Yves,

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007, Pierre-Yves Paulus wrote:
> I'm using the D-Bus API to get the friendly name of a terminal wich name
> contains accented chars. In the String I get, each accented character
> (eg not a 1-byte ASCII char) gets replaced by 2 chars, each with value 0x2e.
>
> Is the problem coming from BlueZ or from the D-Bus bindings layer? Where
> should I look to get a clue?

It's a bug in the validation code responsible for storing the
friendly name. It has been fixed in the 3.8 release.

JOhan