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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Ok, thank you both for clarification. In such case, I suppose we keep
spaces enabled for footprint library and entry names and disable for
symbol related names. I have found a few places that use different rules
for name validation and I wanted to unify them.

Cheers,
Orson

On 04/13/2018 01:30 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Orson,
> 
> You must have missed the original conversation.  We cannot have spaces
> in symbol library nicknames until the schematic and symbol library file
> formats are implemented.  I didn't want to make a change to the current
> schematic file format.  Once they are in place, I will remove the spaces
> restriction.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 04/13/2018 05:45 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>> Another question is whether spaces are considered valid in library item
>> names (symbols/footprints). Should both logical library names and
>> library items permit the same character set? Seems reasonable to me, but
>> I need to be sure.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Orson
>>
>> On 04/13/2018 11:36 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>>> I have just noticed that one cannot use spaces in symbol library
>>> nicknames [1], whereas they are valid for footprint library nicknames
>>> [2]. I suppose it should be unified and moved to a function (static
>>> method in LIB_ID?) to avoid valid characters sets diversion. I will fix
>>> it, but I need to know what is the decision about spaces.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Orson
>>>
>>> 1.
>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/master/eeschema/dialogs/dialog_sym_lib_table.cpp#L269
>>> 2.
>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/master/pcbnew/dialogs/dialog_fp_lib_table.cpp#L302
>>>
>>>
>>>
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