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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 26/01/18 19:25, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I'm opposed to this.  I am planning on modifying the LIB_ID parser and
> fromatter to allow escaping of the / and : characters so that any utf8
> character can be used for symbol and footprint identifiers.  I just do
> not have time to get this done by the stable 5 release.  It's an
> unfortunate side effect of the way LIB_ID parses and formats strings.  I
> would rather not use a different character.  This would just create a
> huge mess with every existing board file.  I think escaping these
> character is a better solution that will be compatible with the current
> board file format.

Good idea, thanks for the explanation.

Tom