[chirp_users] New probably rheas of CSV

[Jim Unroe]

What always works for me is to program a few sample channels into CHIRP and
then export them to a CSV file. Then use the format of that file to create
the new one.

Jim KC9HI

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Bryan McWhirt <bryan at kb9yen.com> wrote:

> Ahh the pitfalls of using an archaic mailing list instead of a forum, no
> ability to search old posts effectively.
>
> I'm having an issue with CSV import. It seems that Chirp is using it's
> own interpretation.
>
> 1. Open Office and Excel both save CSV in formats that can not be
> imported which is not Chirps fault but I still have to deal with it. So,
> is there a list of settings and character encoding that actually work
> when saving from Open Office Calc?
>
> 2. Chirp seems to break the RFC 4180 (
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 ) for CSV in that if you quote the
> header fields it breaks. Does that need to be reported as a bug?
>
> This is what I'm doing that I cannot seem to get to work.  I have a Calc
> document with the repeaters for the state of Indiana. I export a chirp
> file to csv and open that in calc as explained here:
> http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1251  Then I just copy and paste the
> fields into the chirp csv file and save. I get the no channels found error.
>
> I use sed to strip out any excess hidden characters and then try again
> and still I get the no channels error.
>
> Maybe I am going about this wrong?  is there a way to post columns into
> chirp directly? If so that would be much easier but it doesn't seem to
> let me.
>
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> Bryan McWhirt
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