A hopefully better attempt at ESSIDs with '\x00' in them

wicd/wnettools.py

@@ -1252,6 +1252,11 @@ class BaseWirelessInterface(BaseInterface):
             print 'Unicode problem with current network essid, ignoring!!'
             return None
 
+        # We (well, DBus) don't support ESSIDs with null bytes in it.
+        # From some bugreports, it seems like some APs transmit the "hidden"
+        # essid as NULL bytes. Let's strip them off.
+        ap['essid'].replace('\x00', '')
+
         if ap['essid'] in ['Hidden', '<hidden>', "", None]:
             print 'hidden'
             ap['hidden'] = True