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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

We cannot change LIB_IDs until the new schematic file format is
implemented because the symbol LIB_ID is not saved as a quoted string.

In pcbnew, the footprint library name is the file name so that is all
together different issue.  We can quote file names like urls but we
still have to change the LIB_ID parsing and formatting to handle this in
the board file which would effectively require a file format change.

I'm pretty sure we've discussed this as part of v6 but maybe that was
before you joined the project.  Long story short, abandon the idea until
all the pieces are in place to implement it correctly.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 9/27/2018 12:15 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> I had planned to get rid of another of our nanny items (“illegal” characters in names).  The plan was to escape these strings coming in from the UI, and unescape them going out to the UI (or to canvas painting routines).
> 
> But I ran into a snag: we let you edit the FPID in the GUI, and that has the colon in it.  So there’s no way to know whether a colon coming in from that is the separator or needs to be escaped.
> 
> Things we could do:
> 
> 1) abandon the idea
> 2) do everything but colon
> 3) present FPIDs unescaped in the GUI
> 4) something else more clever than what I’ve come up with
> 
> If we do (2) or (3), there’s also the question of the encoding system.  %-encoding is the easiest, but the least human-readable.  An entity-encoding-style syntax with our own names (cf: &forward-slash;) would be the most human-readable, but isn’t standard.  Entity-encoding using XML names (cf: &fasl;) is somewhere in between (and is what I’d lean toward).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
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