"donzie13" <donzie13@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news11C040D-EBE0-4111-9B24-C8D6CADD7522@microsoft.com...
This is a "gray area" in the 802.11 standard.
Strictly speaking, SSID is a binary array (a.k.a. "octet string") and not a character string.
You can treat it as pure old style ASCII (not multibyte or unicode) unless your specific application requires other character
set.
Another "gray area" is how to treat zero bytes in SSID. Since SSID is a binary array, it can contain any number of null bytes in
any position. If you treat SSID as ascii string, then first null byte ends the string and all following bytes also must be null.
Otherwice your app should complain that format of SSID is not legible, or
maybe allow editing SSID in hex mode.

Regards
--PA