diff --git a/ajax/networking/wifi_stations.php b/ajax/networking/wifi_stations.php
index aca5bc89..ecc9c098 100644
--- a/ajax/networking/wifi_stations.php
+++ b/ajax/networking/wifi_stations.php
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ knownWifiStations($networks);
 nearbyWifiStations($networks, !isset($_REQUEST["refresh"]));
 connectedWifiStations($networks);
 sortNetworksByRSSI($networks);
+foreach ($networks as $ssid => $network) $networks[$ssid]["ssidutf8"] = ssid2utf8( $ssid ); 
 
 $connected = array_filter($networks, function($n) { return $n['connected']; } );
 $known     = array_filter($networks, function($n) { return !$n['connected'] && $n['configured']; } );
diff --git a/includes/configure_client.php b/includes/configure_client.php
index 540f0fef..19269025 100755
--- a/includes/configure_client.php
+++ b/includes/configure_client.php
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ function DisplayWPAConfig()
                     if (strlen($network['passphrase']) >=8 && strlen($network['passphrase']) <= 63) {
                         unset($wpa_passphrase);
                         unset($line);
-                        exec('wpa_passphrase '.escapeshellarg($ssid). ' ' . escapeshellarg($network['passphrase']), $wpa_passphrase);
+                        exec('wpa_passphrase '. ssid2utf8( escapeshellarg($ssid) ) . ' ' . escapeshellarg($network['passphrase']), $wpa_passphrase);
                         foreach ($wpa_passphrase as $line) {
                             if (preg_match('/^\s*}\s*$/', $line)) {
                                 if (array_key_exists('priority', $network)) {
@@ -69,7 +69,11 @@ function DisplayWPAConfig()
                                 }
                                 fwrite($wpa_file, $line.PHP_EOL);
                             } else {
-                                fwrite($wpa_file, $line.PHP_EOL);
+                                if ( preg_match('/\\\\x[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}/',$ssid) && strpos($line, "ssid=\"") !== false ) {
+                                     fwrite($wpa_file, "\tssid=P\"".$ssid."\"".PHP_EOL);
+                                } else {
+                                     fwrite($wpa_file, $line.PHP_EOL);
+                                }
                             }
                         }
                     } else {
diff --git a/includes/functions.php b/includes/functions.php
index 8ccd2430..b4774c2f 100755
--- a/includes/functions.php
+++ b/includes/functions.php
@@ -765,6 +765,10 @@ function evalHexSequence($string)
     return preg_replace_callback('/\\\x(..)/', $evaluator, $string);
 }
 
+function hexSequence2lower($string) {
+ return preg_replace_callback('/\\\\x([0-9A-F]{2})/', function($b){ return '\x'.strtolower($b[1]); }, $string);
+}
+
 /* File upload callback object
  *
  */
diff --git a/includes/get_clients.php b/includes/get_clients.php
index 279fbef8..c167a538 100644
--- a/includes/get_clients.php
+++ b/includes/get_clients.php
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 
 require_once 'includes/functions.php';
+require_once 'includes/wifi_functions.php';
 
 function getClients($simple=true)
 {
@@ -70,9 +71,10 @@ function getClients($simple=true)
                 $cl["device"][$i]["isAP"] = !empty($retiw);
                 unset($retiw);
                 exec("iw dev $dev link 2> /dev/null", $retiw);
-                if (!$simple && !empty($ssid=preg_only_match("/.*SSID: ([\w ]*).*/", $retiw)) ) {
+                if (!$simple && !empty($ssid=preg_only_match("/.*SSID:\s*([^\"]*).*/", $retiw)) ) {
                     $cl["device"][$i]["connected"] = "y";
                     $cl["device"][$i]["ssid"] = $ssid;
+                    $cl["device"][$i]["ssidutf8"] = ssid2utf8($ssid);
                     $cl["device"][$i]["ap-mac"] = preg_only_match("/^Connected to ([0-9a-f\:]*).*$/", $retiw);
                     $sig = preg_only_match("/.*signal: (.*)$/", $retiw);
                     $val = preg_only_match("/^([0-9\.-]*).*$/", $sig);
diff --git a/includes/wifi_functions.php b/includes/wifi_functions.php
index 7d5decd3..9d2281cc 100755
--- a/includes/wifi_functions.php
+++ b/includes/wifi_functions.php
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ function knownWifiStations(&$networks)
                 switch (strtolower($lineArr[0])) {
                 case 'ssid':
                     $ssid = trim($lineArr[1], '"');
+                    $ssid = str_replace('P"','',$ssid);
                     $network['ssid'] = $ssid;
                     break;
                 case 'psk':
@@ -80,7 +81,6 @@ function nearbyWifiStations(&$networks, $cached = true)
         $arrNetwork = preg_split("/[\t]+/", $network);  // split result into array
 
         $ssid = trim($arrNetwork[4]);
-        $ssid = evalHexSequence($ssid);
 
         // exclude raspap ssid
         if (empty($ssid) || $ssid == $ap_ssid) {
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ function connectedWifiStations(&$networks)
     exec('iwconfig ' .$_SESSION['wifi_client_interface'], $iwconfig_return);
     foreach ($iwconfig_return as $line) {
         if (preg_match('/ESSID:\"([^"]+)\"/i', $line, $iwconfig_ssid)) {
-            $networks[$iwconfig_ssid[1]]['connected'] = true;
+            $networks[hexSequence2lower($iwconfig_ssid[1])]['connected'] = true;
         }
     }
 }
@@ -189,3 +189,12 @@ function reinitializeWPA($force)
     return $result;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Replace escaped bytes (hex) by binary - assume UTF8 encoding
+ *
+ * @param string $ssid
+ */
+function ssid2utf8($ssid) {
+    return  evalHexSequence($ssid);
+}
+
diff --git a/templates/dashboard.php b/templates/dashboard.php
index e443db8d..113d004d 100755
--- a/templates/dashboard.php
+++ b/templates/dashboard.php
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
                     <?php $valEcho=function($cl,$id) {$val = isset($cl[$id])&& !empty($cl[$id]) ? $cl[$id] : "-"; echo  htmlspecialchars($val,ENT_QUOTES);} ?>
                     <?php if ($clientinfo["type"] == "wlan") : // WIRELESS ?>
                       <div class="row mb-1">
-                        <div class="info-item col-xs-3"><?php echo _("Connected To"); ?></div><div class="info-value col-xs-3"><?php $valEcho($clientinfo,"ssid"); ?></div>
+                        <div class="info-item col-xs-3"><?php echo _("Connected To"); ?></div><div class="info-value col-xs-3"><?php $valEcho($clientinfo,"ssidutf8"); ?></div>
                       </div>
                       <div class="row mb-1">
                         <div class="info-item col-xs-3"><?php echo _("AP Mac Address"); ?></div><div class="info-value col-xs-3"><?php $valEcho($clientinfo,"ap-mac"); ?></div>
diff --git a/templates/wifi_stations/network.php b/templates/wifi_stations/network.php
index abac081a..bffe41f7 100644
--- a/templates/wifi_stations/network.php
+++ b/templates/wifi_stations/network.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 		<?php if (strlen($network['ssid']) == 0) {
 			$network['ssid'] = "(unknown)";
 		} ?>
-		<h5 class="card-title"><?php echo htmlspecialchars($network['ssid'], ENT_QUOTES); ?></h5>
+		<h5 class="card-title"><?php echo htmlspecialchars($network['ssidutf8'], ENT_QUOTES); ?></h5>
 
 		<div class="info-item-wifi"><?php echo _("Status"); ?></div>
 		<div>