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I'm trying to add a Unicode character (https://emojipedia.org/fire/ 🔥) to my WiFi's SSID, as I've seen a lot of people managing to do it. However, this doesn't currently work.
The standard behavior of my router (which I can bypass using Chrome's DevMode) is to allow only ASCII characters. What I get after the bypass is a WiFi named 🔥
(as shown on Ubuntu 16.04 & Android 7.0), corresponding to the HTML decimal entity of my smiley. Note that the smiley displays correctly in the administration panel of the router.
I later also tried to intercept and modify the POST request to change the SSID, which contained the smiley formatted as 🔥
, but here too, not much success.
Now, I actually doubt that my router supports Unicode characters, but wanted to know your opinion before beginning to search a new funny name for my WiFi.
The router is a CH7485E from TeleColumbus, manufactured by Compal Broadband Networks (http://www.icbn.com.tw/products/product_view_en/8).
I've added the few informations I could find at the end of the post. I tried running NMAP scans to gather more details, but connecting via command line seems impossible (ports filtered). – Louis S. – 2017-10-14T20:00:57.630