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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tested with a few hellish combinations of characters and everything I could
think of managed not to break it. Also, three thumbs up from me about not
liking programs silently changing what you've typed.

On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 08:37:51AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I just committed the fix for this
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1529358 bug.  It was more involved
> that I thought it would be (isn't it always?) so I would appreciate some
> help testing this to make sure I didn't break anything particularly on
> OSX.  Mainly I need to make sure that I didn't accidentally limit any
> valid field characters or break the component value (renaming) field
> code.  As of now, you cannot use \r, \n, or \t in any field and
> reference designators cannot contain spaces.  I also changed the leading
> and trailing white space behavior.  In the past, leading and trailing
> white spaces would silently be removed.  I changed that so you now get a
> warning so you can fix it.  I personally don't like programs silently
> changing information I typed.  I would rather be warned that what I
> typed is invalid.  I can change this back if users find it too
> objectionable.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne
> 
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