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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

We have to leave the spaces for the footprint libraries.  Otherwise we
will break the behavior that's always been in place.  I know it's not
the best situation but hopefully it will be fairly short lived.

On 04/13/2018 07:32 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> 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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