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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 19, 2013 8:42 AM, "Dick Hollenbeck" <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 19, 2013 7:53 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 07:03:18AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > > Not as likely as an alias problem.  Your xml file might have all the
proper
> > > aliases in it, and this would be if you are exporting it with an
> > > insufficient version.  Using a version at least as new as my posting
> > > mentioned?  See any <aliases> in the xml?
> >
> > It's fresh from bzr... as you can see aliases are there (and in fact
that part
> > is an alias). Have fun reverse engineering the design from the netlist
:P
>
> I am not accustomed to someone asking for help in this fashion.
>
> It sounds like two things need to be done.
>
> 1) the python netlist loader needs to assume utf8.

Usually an xml parser gets a hint from the xml header, which can state
utf8, if the file is encoded as such.

I don't remember if our xml netlist has such a header....


>
> 2) eeschema should be made case sensitive in its use of component names.
>
> IMO.
>
> I have no time to help with either.
>
> Sorry.
>
> >
> > Replacing dsPIC with DSPIC (I did it everywhere!) make that go away
(there is *another*
> > problem, since it chokes on UTF8 characters (maybe python needs
something like 'use locale' in perl):
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "bom_csv_by_ref_v2.py", line 41, in <module>
> >       c.getField("Manufacturer"), c.getField("Vendor")])
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb5' in
position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> > --
> > Lorenzo Marcantonio
> > Logos Srl
> >
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