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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 01:37:02PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 7/16/2015 11:17 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > We've received a question from another disappointed user, who is trying
> > to read a .kicad_pcb file with translated layer names. For the moment
> > the only way to fix this is by hand-editing the file.
> 
> I do not believe this is entirely true.  AFAIK, using the previous
> stable version, you should be able to open the board and temporarily set
> the language to English and save the board which should set the layer
> names in the board file back to the default English translations.

Do you really think that is an acceptable solution? Nobody is going to 
know to do that!


Anyway, along these lines: there are still some files in our own demos 
directory, in both kicad proper and the lib repo, that have this 
problem. I was going to fix it myself but didn't have time to. Someone 
probably should do that before the release.

> 
> > 
> > Would you accept a patch to PCB_PARSER that resolves this issue? It
> > would be a pity if the upcoming stable version wouldn't be able to read
> > the files generated by the previous stable version...
> 
> As long as the patch was sane.  I would not be willing make a huge mess
> out of PCB_PARSER for this one issue when the alternate solution is
> fairly simple.
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tom
> > 
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Chris