[chirp_devel] Issue with Baofeng Firmware Version

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