<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Jim KC9HI</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Bryan McWhirt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan@kb9yen.com" target="_blank">bryan@kb9yen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ahh the pitfalls of using an archaic mailing list instead of a forum, no<br>
ability to search old posts effectively.<br>
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I'm having an issue with CSV import. It seems that Chirp is using it's<br>
own interpretation.<br>
<br>
1. Open Office and Excel both save CSV in formats that can not be<br>
imported which is not Chirps fault but I still have to deal with it. So,<br>
is there a list of settings and character encoding that actually work<br>
when saving from Open Office Calc?<br>
<br>
2. Chirp seems to break the RFC 4180 (<br>
<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180" target="_blank">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180</a> ) for CSV in that if you quote the<br>
header fields it breaks. Does that need to be reported as a bug?<br>
<br>
This is what I'm doing that I cannot seem to get to work. I have a Calc<br>
document with the repeaters for the state of Indiana. I export a chirp<br>
file to csv and open that in calc as explained here:<br>
<a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1251" target="_blank">http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1251</a> Then I just copy and paste the<br>
fields into the chirp csv file and save. I get the no channels found error.<br>
<br>
I use sed to strip out any excess hidden characters and then try again<br>
and still I get the no channels error.<br>
<br>
Maybe I am going about this wrong? is there a way to post columns into<br>
chirp directly? If so that would be much easier but it doesn't seem to<br>
let me.<br>
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KB9YEN<br>
Bryan McWhirt<br>
<a href="mailto:bryan@kb9yen.com">bryan@kb9yen.com</a><br>
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