Bug #889: Asterisk should be allowed in name on IC-208H - CHIRP

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Bug #889

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Asterisk should be allowed in name on IC-208H

Added by Charles Boling over 11 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

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Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Filippi Marco

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Start date:

05/28/2013

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Chirp Version:

daily

Model affected:

IC-208H

Platform:

All

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Description

The IC-208H allows hyphens in the displayed channel name. These download from the radio as asterisks, and such names upload back into the radio from CHIRP fine. However, CHIRP does not think asterisks are allowed, and it drops them during editing or paste operations in an IC-208H image.

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IC-208_Special_Chars.img.zip (442 Bytes) IC-208_Special_Chars.img.zip		Charles Boling, 06/04/2013 01:37 PM
IC-208_special_Char_Channels.png (6.33 KB) IC-208_special_Char_Channels.png		Charles Boling, 06/04/2013 01:37 PM

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Updated by Charles Boling over 11 years ago

Actually the CHIRP import doesn't perfectly match the export in this case; I just noticed the asterisks in chirp become equal signs ("=") in the radio, instead of hyphens ("-").

The full set of documented characters allowed in the channel name for IC-208H, aside from A-Z and 0-9 are:
" +-=*/()|" (space,plus,minus,equal,asterisk,parentheses,pipe). These chars can be directly entered into software from RT Systems and pushed to the radio, where they appear correctly (Side note: The Pipe looks more like a "<" or a slash+underscore on the radio display).

When downloaded from the radio to CHIRP the original character set

" +-=*/()|" is translated to
" -**+(89="

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Updated by Filippi Marco over 11 years ago

Status changed from New to Feedback
Assignee set to Filippi Marco
Platform changed from Linux to All

For sure I found a bug in the label conversion routine but I need more info to be able to fix this.
Please create on the radio some memories using the full set of characters aside the letters, eg.
mem1 123456
mem2 7890 +
mem3 -=*/()
mem4 |

Load from radio to chirp, save the file (.img) and upload it here with a list of labels as they are seen on the radio, no matter what they look like in chirp.
I'll then fix this shortly

Tnx

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