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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

This was done because the schematic file format parser would break with 
the forward slash character.  I hope to fix this early in the v6 
development but it's a pain we are going to have to live with until the 
new schematic file format is complete.  I wish I had the time to do it 
all at once but it's just wasn't in the cards.  I have to implement this 
one piece at a time.  There was an announcement on this mailing list 
about it.  I apologize for the inconvenience.  Hopefully it will be 
short lived.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 05/08/2018 04:40 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> looks like a forward slash character in nick names in the fp-lib-table 
> is not supported any more (it can be read but it cannot be saved).
>
> This breaks compatibility with older fp-lib-tables somewhat. I have been 
> using slashes in names to namespace fp-lib-tables created for my 
> footprint collection <https://github.com/monostable/kicad_footprints>.
>
> Is there a good reason for not allowing slashes in names?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kaspar
>
> ​
>
>
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