German character 'ß' in wifi password - unable to connect!
Hi,
Any help would be appreciated - 3 trips to Apple stores today and still no luck! I'm trying to connect my Macbook Air to a wifi network that contains a 'ß' in it's password.
Is there anyway to get around this glitch? I'm using the German keyboard layout and have no problems inserting that character into finder, text edit etc - it just won't allow me to type it into the password dialog box.
Help me please!
Thanks Nerowolfe,
Believe me, this was our first option - unfortunatley the owner of the network has not come back to us.
I'm surprised there's no way around this... in the meantime there's the ethernet cable...
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