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[Diego Herranz <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Wayne.

I've read the bug and I've seen it's not a trivial fix. I wasn't offering
to fix it just, just to follow that bug and see what was agreed and done. I
guess I didn't explain myself (English is not my first language) :)

Thanks!
Diego

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Diego,
>
> Thank you for the offer but I'm already working on it.  It is not as
> easy to fix as it would seem.  The problem is what to do when you do not
> have write access to the library with the invalid characters.  I have a
> few ideas but it will take me a while to get it the way I want it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 11/18/2017 08:00 AM, Diego Herranz wrote:
> > Thanks. I'll chase that bug.
> >
> > Diego
> >
> > On 18 Nov 2017 11:35 am, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236
> >     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236>
> >
> >     2017-11-18 11:42 GMT+01:00 Diego Herranz
> >     <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>:
> >
> >         Hi,
> >
> >         I'm testing a recent build (41f9c19b) on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits.
> >
> >         When opening a schematic made with a nightly build ~2 months
> >         old, the remapping dialog shows up. So far so good.
> >
> >         I've followed the recommendations
> >         in http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/
> >         <http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/> and most things
> >         seem to be working fine. Every symbol gets remapped but 2. Both
> >         of which include '/' in their name (e.g. PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT).
> >
> >         Opening the schematic after the remap, it seems Kicad has
> >         changed it to PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT.
> >
> >         In fact, after a bit more searching, I've found out that as soon
> >         as the remapping dialog shows up, before clicking on "Remap
> >         symbols" the '/' characters have been replaced to '_'. So I'm
> >         guessing that is the reason why it can't find the symbols when
> >         remapping?
> >         "Warning: No symbol 'PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT' found in symbol
> >         library table." confirms that the name was changed before the
> >         remapping attempt.
> >
> >         I have then tried to edit the broken symbols in Eeschema. When I
> >         try to assign "PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT" again, which can be found
> >         through the "Choose Symbol" dialog without problems, it
> complains:
> >         " Symbol 'PIC32MX1XXFXXXD-I_PT' not found in library
> >         'MCU_Microchip_PIC32'! "
> >
> >         Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug?
> >
> >         Many thanks,
> >         Diego
> >
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