If an AP name cannot be decoded with the system locale (or fallback locale), nm-applet will display gibberish instead of the AP name. Clicking connect will fail to connect to the network. Instead, if the AP name cannot be decoded, the BSSID should be displayed in nm-applet, which would make it possible to still connect to the network. For example, in greater China region some AP names may use the gb18030 encoding, which cannot be decoded with en_US.UTF-8 locale. The user should not be required to switch his system locale to zh_CN.gb18030 locale just to connect to networks for which the AP name cannot be decoded. Secondly, nm-applet should use LC_CTYPE to determine the encoding (and list of fallback encodings [1]) used for decoding AP names. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784415 contains more background information. [1]: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/libnm-core/nm-utils.c?id=a47153f5b8a114ce1f0d226b33d0ad6d6ec7f150#n76
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