Fix non-ASCII SSID characters displayed as \xNN hex in network panel - #6446
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Wrap awk output in printf '%b' to decode iw's \xNN hex escapes back to the actual characters.
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Problem
The connected SSID in the network panel hero area shows
\xNNhex escapes (e.g.\xe2\x80\x99) instead of the actual character (') for any byte outside printable ASCII — smart quotes, emoji, accented letters, backslash, and leading/trailing spaces. The available networks list renders these correctly.Root cause
bin/omarchy-network-statusreads the SSID fromiw dev <iface> link, which escapes non-printable and non-ASCII bytes viaprint_ssid_escaped(). The available networks list reads via NetworkManager D-Bus with proper UTF-8 decoding, so it's unaffected.Fix
Wrap the awk output in
printf '%b', a bash builtin that decodes\xNNsequences back to literal bytes.iwalready escapes backslashes and edge spaces as\xNNfirst, so the round-trip is safe — plain ASCII SSIDs pass through unchanged.