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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:42:41AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> I am not accustomed to someone asking for help in this fashion.

It was not a request to fix it now. However there seems to be a problem,
so I tought it would be useful to signal it.

> It sounds like two things need to be done.
> 
> 1) the python netlist loader needs to assume utf8.
> 
> 2) eeschema should be made case sensitive in its use of component names.

That was the reason for the initial question. What is the 'official'
decision about case sensitivity?

Also, in cmake there is a KICAD_KEEPCASE option (default off) which
could be related to/a fix for this.

> I have no time to help with either.

No problem, I was just 'raising the flag'. I didn't mean "fix it
otherwise I can't do a thing". Sorry I if gave that impression.

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