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At my place the wifi around looks like this:

   $ iwlist wlan0 scanning | grep -e Cell -e key: -e SSID -e Auth
          Cell 01 - Address: A0:E4:CB:AF:1C:A5
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"foo5"
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
          Cell 02 - Address: A0:E4:CB:AF:1C:A4
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"foo2"
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
          Cell 03 - Address: FA:8F:CA:6A:2A:20
                    Encryption key:off
                    ESSID:""
          Cell 04 - Address: 14:9D:09:31:02:81
                    Encryption key:off
                    ESSID:"Telekom_FON"
          Cell 05 - Address: 14:9D:09:31:02:80
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"WLAN-PXFA7W"
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
          Cell 06 - Address: AE:75:57:D1:C7:D8
                    Encryption key:off
                    ESSID:"muenchen.freifunk.net"
          Cell 07 - Address: 02:0E:8E:1E:61:17
                    Encryption key:off
                    ESSID:"mesh.ffmuc"
          Cell 08 - Address: 5C:03:39:5B:12:F8
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"Susi"
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
          Cell 09 - Address: 34:31:C4:CF:AA:66
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"FRITZ!Box 7490"
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
          Cell 10 - Address: B4:A5:EF:0A:33:DC
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"EasyBox-570871"
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
          Cell 11 - Address: 00:21:91:EC:FA:CB
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"Eiselbrecher_net"
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

This is taken by setup-interfaces and processed by awk to produce this:

"EasyBox-570871" : PSK
"Eiselbrecher_net" : PSK
"foo2" : PSK
"foo5" : PSK
"FRITZ!Box 7490" : PSK
"muenchen.freifunk.net" "mesh.ffmuc" "Susi" : PSK
: PSK
"" "Telekom_FON" "WLAN-PXFA7W" : PSK

Later this is interpreted as “muenchen.freifunk.net is using PSK”, which is clearly wrong.
Connecting to such a network (using that script) is therefore not possible.

Not sure about the best way to fix this. Parsing the text output correctly is tricky and using something like iwlib would probably result in an unwanted dependencies.

(from redmine: issue id 8571, created on 2018-02-25)