Anomaly with brackets in APRS description

[ik4nzd]

Good evening everyone.

Hoping to be useful to someone, I want to report an anomaly that I have recently encountered on pi-star.

I had noticed that, after having inserted some parameters in a new system, suddenly the dashboard responded with incorrect information or even parts were missing.

In my case, having the system also active in YSF, the YSF GW function of the EXPERT menu no longer opened and also the YSF Link Manager part of the admin menu disappeared.

After various tests I discovered that the "brackets" characters in the APRS description create this problem.

If I write, for example, "Test (YSF)" as a description, then the problem occurs.

If I remove the brackets, everything works correctly again.

Note that the "brackets" characters do not create any problem in other systems based on MMDVM without pi-star.

'73 de Adam, IK4NZD