Bug 478142 - Connecting to a network replaces its name with strange characters
Summary: Connecting to a network replaces its name with strange characters
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Networks widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: master
Platform: Debian unstable Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2023-12-06 05:26 UTC by Barış Salman
Modified: 2025-06-13 14:17 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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screenshot of widget and the settings panel, above one suppose to say "redmi9c bar" (33.06 KB, image/png)
2023-12-06 05:26 UTC, Barış Salman 		Details
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Description Barış Salman 2023-12-06 05:26:28 UTC 
Created attachment 163932 [details]
screenshot of widget and the settings panel, above one suppose to say "redmi9c bar"

SUMMARY
SSIDs are displayed as weird characters.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  No idea :/
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OBSERVED RESULT
Weird characters in SSIDs

EXPECTED RESULT
I expected to see normal characters

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux: 6.5.0 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-12-07 22:38:53 UTC 
And those aren't the names of the networks themselves? Are there any other networks within scanning range? Do they all look weird like this? Or do they look normal?
Comment 2 Barış Salman 2023-12-07 23:26:19 UTC 
Hi Nate,

I am 100% certain those are not the names of the networks. Wifi is named "redmi9c bar" and ethernet connection is named "docker" visible in the screenshot. Those aren't random scanned SSIDs. Both shown as connected in the attachment. SSID changes when its connected. It looked normal in the disconnected section under the hrule.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-12-11 21:19:54 UTC 
How strange. Do you by any chance have an NVIDIA GPU?
Comment 4 Barış Salman 2023-12-11 21:22:29 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> How strange. Do you by any chance have an NVIDIA GPU?

I'm on a lenovo thinkpad e14 with amd chipset.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-12-11 21:24:50 UTC 
Hmm, thanks.
Comment 6 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:26:04 UTC 
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2025-06-12 18:36:37 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report, and I'm sorry we didn't manage to investigate this one more deeply yet. A lot has changed since the issue was reported, in both Plasma and the networking stack in general; can I ask you to see if it's still happening in Plasma 6.3.5 or later with Frameworks 6.14 or later? Thanks a lot!
Comment 8 Barış Salman 2025-06-13 13:30:21 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #7)
> Thanks for the bug report, and I'm sorry we didn't manage to investigate
> this one more deeply yet. A lot has changed since the issue was reported, in
> both Plasma and the networking stack in general; can I ask you to see if
> it's still happening in Plasma 6.3.5 or later with Frameworks 6.14 or later?
> Thanks a lot!

Hi Nate,
I haven't on KDE for a while. But haven't come across this while I was on KDE. Maybe we can close the issue.
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2025-06-13 13:40:39 UTC 
OK, thanks!
Comment 10 Barış Salman 2025-06-13 14:17:16 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9)
> OK, thanks!

Thanks to you too for looking into it, Best, Barış