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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/26/2018 1:28 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> 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
> 

I've been known have a good idea every once in a while. ;)  The current
churn rate of be project leader has really put a hurting on the amount
of time I have for coding. :(

Cheers,

Wayne