character § not supported as WiFi Password

I don't think its such an 'off the wall idea', its similar to what I thought, try to find out what the key is being changed into in binary and use that.

Your idea just side steps the hassle of hacking in the wifi of a working machine.

Hope it solves the users problem.

regards

I wonder if the original poster could get his hands on a pee-cee that is known to log in wirelessly, connect it by ethernet to a network where another machine allowed plain text telnet or instant messaging, and typed a "§" character, and sniffed it with a Mac running tcpdump or wireshark, to see what the encoding was. Then do the same thing typing that character on the Mac to see whether the tcpdump/wireshark displayed the same hex code for the same character? If not then try to figure out what the heck character he had to type in order to generate that same over-the-wire hex string?

If not then try to figure out what the heck character he had to type in order to generate that same over-the-wire hex string?

That's the idea behind typing ß. In Apple's sometimes default MacRoman encoding, this produces hex byte A7, which is the same byte used by § in Windows default ANSI encoding.

Tom Gewecke wrote:
Thanks, I certainly did note that and provided the exact same link earlier in the thread. Are some of the messages not appearing?

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9934736#9934736

It's there, I just missed it. 😟