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

Pierre-Yves Paulus
2007-01-08T18:50:37Z

Hi Johan,

> 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.

Thanks for the fast answer. I will upgrade soon then (am currently using
3.7).

Best Regards,
Pierre-Yves