diff --git a/networking/generate_network_config.py b/networking/generate_network_config.py
index f4dbbfb..9201f9a 100644
--- a/networking/generate_network_config.py
+++ b/networking/generate_network_config.py
@@ -6,9 +6,35 @@
 import os
 import stat
 import ipaddress
+import re
+
+HEX_ESCAPE_RE = re.compile(r'\\x([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})')
 
 SYS_CON_DIR = "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections"
 
+def is_escaped_essid(essid: str) -> bool:
+    """True if the ESSID contains at least one \\xHH hex escape sequence."""
+    return HEX_ESCAPE_RE.search(essid) is not None
+
+def bytes_to_nm_ssid_value(raw: bytes) -> str:
+    return ";".join(str(b) for b in raw) + ";"
+
+def unescape_regex(essid: str) -> bytes:
+    """
+    Only touch \\xHH sequences with a targeted regex substitution, leave
+    every other character exactly as-is, then encode the result as Latin-1
+    (a 1:1 char -> byte mapping) to recover the raw bytes.
+    """
+    unescaped_chars = HEX_ESCAPE_RE.sub(lambda m: chr(int(m.group(1), 16)), essid)
+    return unescaped_chars.encode("latin-1")
+
+def escaped_hex_to_bytes_string(raw_essid_from_iwlist: str) -> str:
+    """Return the exact text to put after 'ssid=' in the .nmconnection file."""
+    if is_escaped_essid(raw_essid_from_iwlist):
+        raw_bytes = unescape_regex(raw_essid_from_iwlist)
+        return bytes_to_nm_ssid_value(raw_bytes)
+    return raw_essid_from_iwlist
+
 def calculate_brd_by_hand(address: str, netmask: str) -> str:
     return format(ipaddress.IPv4Network(f"{address}/{netmask}", strict=False).broadcast_address)
 
@@ -119,6 +145,8 @@ def get_wireless_conn_file(config: ConfigGroup):
     psk = config.get("wireless-password")
     connect = "true" if config.get("wireless-network") else "false"
 
+    ssid = escaped_hex_to_bytes_string(ssid)
+    
     ssid = escape_backslashes_for_network_manager(ssid)
     psk = escape_backslashes_for_network_manager(psk)
 
diff --git a/networking/test_generate_network_config.py b/networking/test_generate_network_config.py
index b2164dd..c8a8463 100644
--- a/networking/test_generate_network_config.py
+++ b/networking/test_generate_network_config.py
@@ -226,7 +226,71 @@ def get(k):
         c.get = Mock(side_effect=get)
         template = get_wireless_conn_file(c)
         assert template == wireless_template.format("method=auto")
-    
+
+    @mock.patch("generate_network_config.configure_static_network", side_effect=mock_csn)
+    def test_get_wireless_conn_file_ascii_ssid(self, csn_mock):
+        """Test ASCII-only SSID like 'MyNetwork' from iwlist."""
+        c = Mock()
+
+        def get(k):
+            if k == "wireless-type":
+                return "dhcp"
+            elif k == "wireless-ssid":
+                return "MyNetwork"  # ASCII SSID
+            elif k == "wireless-password":
+                return "password123"
+            else:
+                return None
+        c.get = Mock(side_effect=get)
+
+        template = get_wireless_conn_file(c)
+        # Verify ssid=MyNetwork appears in output (ASCII SSIDs pass through unchanged)
+        assert "ssid=MyNetwork" in template
+        assert "psk=password123" in template
+        assert "method=auto" in template
+
+    @mock.patch("generate_network_config.configure_static_network", side_effect=mock_csn)
+    def test_get_wireless_conn_file_mixed_ssid(self, csn_mock):
+        """Test mixed ASCII and non-ASCII SSID."""
+        c = Mock()
+
+        def get(k):
+            if k == "wireless-type":
+                return "dhcp"
+            elif k == "wireless-ssid":
+                # München in UTF-8 hex escapes (as iwlist would output)
+                return r"M\xC3\xBCnchen"
+            elif k == "wireless-password":
+                return "password123"
+            else:
+                return None
+        c.get = Mock(side_effect=get)
+
+        template = get_wireless_conn_file(c)
+        # Verify ssid=77;195;188;110;99;104;101;110; (byte values for München)
+        assert "ssid=77;195;188;110;99;104;101;110;" in template
+
+    @mock.patch("generate_network_config.configure_static_network", side_effect=mock_csn)
+    def test_get_wireless_conn_file_non_ascii_ssid(self, csn_mock):
+        """Test non-ASCII SSID from iwlist hex-escaped output."""
+        c = Mock()
+
+        def get(k):
+            if k == "wireless-type":
+                return "dhcp"
+            elif k == "wireless-ssid":
+                # "😂" -(non-ASCII) 
+                return r"\xF0\x9F\x98\x82"
+            elif k == "wireless-password":
+                return "password123"
+            else:
+                return None
+        c.get = Mock(side_effect=get)
+
+        template = get_wireless_conn_file(c)
+        # Verify correct byte conversion for mixed SSID
+        assert "ssid=240;159;152;130;" in template
+
     def test_calculate_brd_by_hand(self):
         brd = calculate_brd_by_hand("192.168.1.24", 8)
         assert brd == "192.255.255.255"