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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I just noticed I had a old kicad vs new kicad conflict on
this machine. So my bad on that.

But the nicer error message point still a concern as I've seen other
users asking about it recently. I am just not sure the best way to
word the message/dictate.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/3/2015 10:47 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
>> So it turns out all the demo files in KiCad are also affected by the
>> translated layer name mess.
>
> Huh? I just checked. All of the kicad demo boards open just fine for me.
>  Remember, copper layers can be translated because they have fixed
> ordinal numbers.  Only non-copper layers cause the translation problems.
>
>>
>> They all more or less have the french layer names. So none of them
>> load as of bzr 6292 in pcbnew.
>>
>>
>>
>> So ignoring that issue for a moment, is there any reason why we cannot
>> add a more friendly error message? Like
>>
>> "Layer name is unknown to KiCad, please see XXX in documentation" or
>> something? Not sue what exactly but would help as I see it being a big
>> issue with people upgrading.
>
> I'm not opposed to this but I would have to verify that this could
> actually be done.  It depends how the parser exception is raised.
>
>>
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Mark