72. The computer program product of claim 71 , wherein locating the character set information comprises extracting the character set information from a specified field of the service set identification information element.
71. A computer program product, comprising: a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising: at least one instruction for causing a computer to locate character set information identifying a non-Unicode character set for an access point in a wireless beacon broadcast by the access point, the wireless beacon comprising a service set identification information element comprising a service set identification for the access point encoded in the character set, at least one instruction for causing a computer to decode the service set identification information element packed in the wireless beacon in accordance with the non-Unicode character set and broadcast by the access point using the non-Unicode character set, and at least one instruction for causing a computer to present the service set identification in Unicode format to a user of at least one station receiving the wireless beacon to select a network connection.