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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I noticed today that we have been handling conversion between UTF8 and
wxString wrong _all over_, leading to some interesting encoding issues
(UTF8 strings were being converted in the encoding of the current
locale, not UTF-8). Following a bit of discussion with Wayne I went
through and fixed all the instances of this I could find [1].

There is a high chance that this will uncover latent bugs in our
encoding handling - e.g. places where people have unwittingly
compensated for this bug instead of fixing it.

Anyone who has an unusual locale setup - in particular, non-UTF-8
encoding - PLEASE TEST footprint library loading, footprint library
writing, rendering of footprint and symbol names in the GUI, and
anything else you can think of related to the interface between library
ID objects and the greater KiCad environment.

Thank you.

[1] https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=4011ed4e31c77d9ee885cc9262d0f0f89cad4fc6

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Chris