Password with special characters needs to be unquoted

[sualk]

Scan an connect fails if the password contains a special character like ",", eg "123,ab"
In that case the password gets set as "123,ab", an additional \ is added.

The password and possibly also the SSID needs to be unquoted before further use.

[kokoye2007]

I will test and use to hash. It's possible :)

Thanks for your help.

[kokoye2007]

qrencode is strip
special character < Reserved Characters >

• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-2.1
• https://metacpan.org/pod/URI::Encode

[kokoye2007]

qrencode is strip special character < Reserved Characters >

• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-2.1
• https://metacpan.org/pod/URI::Encode

https://support.idautomation.com/Image-Generator/QR-Code-encoding-the-special-characters-such-as-or/_1876

[sualk]

Maybe i did not describe the problem well enough and i also noted that one \ is missing in my initial report.

If you have a WIFI network with some special characters in the password then these characters should be quoted in the QR code as described here: https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Barcode-Contents#wi-fi-network-config-android-ios-11

So the WIFI password is "123,abc", but the QR contains the following "123\,abc".

Scanning this QR code with wifi-qr will use the password with the additional \ instead of the correct one without the \.
So before using the password data from the QR code an unquoting is required to generate the correct password.

[kokoye2007]

Release v0.2-3
https://github.com/kokoye2007/wifi-qr/releases/tag/0.2-3

[ls-1N]

It worked for me with a password that has @ in it. 👍

@kokoye2007 Btw is it intentional that you didn't upload a .deb file in the 0.2.3 release?

[kokoye2007]

@ls-1N apologies
I will update ASAP with

• SSID name instead SSID File Name
• SSID special characters as well.

next release will be .deb and archive :D
Thank for your support.