[chirp_devel] Issue with Baofeng Firmware Version

[Jim Unroe]

There is an issue with some recent Baofeng radios where the firmware
version isn't padded with spaces like is usually is. Instead the they
are 0xff.

The problem is when CHIRP displays the firmware version, the firmware
version gets sanitized so it can be displayed. This changes the 0xFF
values to spaces. Then when the user modifies any settings, the
sanitized firmware version gets written to the image. Since the
firmware of the image no longer matches the firmware version of the
radio, CHIRP aborts the upload.

Is there a way to display the firmware version as read only text (as
it is now) but not alter the characters stored in the image?

I am referring to the uv5r.py driver

Thanks,
Jim KC9HI