[saagarjha]

> Both the s8 and the Firestick are rendering the result in what I deem as the correct way with it showing the name just with some of the vertical characters cutoff.

At least one is doing a poor job, though, because the diacritics look nothing alike…

> After asking around on the Apple discord server someone said it might be using the Mac OS Roman character set. It turns out it which is strange because iOS used UTF-8 internally and not Mac OS Roman as that was phased out with the release of Mac OS X.

I would guess that some part of IOKit is passing a C or C++ string to CoreFoundation using an inappropriate function or using the “system encoding”. I can’t remember of the top of my head, but Mac OS Roman might also be encoding 0. In any case there’s certainly a convention going on there with a poor default or some sort of strange compatibility story.

(I’m actually curious if there is “supposed” to be an encoding for this. Perhaps Mac OS Roman is just as correct and more convenient?)

[kalleboo]

The first Apple Airport routers predate MacOS X, so it wouldn’t be crazy for the initial MacOS X implementation to fall back to MacOS Roman as backcompat to routers configured with MacOS 8.6/9. And then if they never changed it since for 99% of users the UTF8 auto detect works fine...