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[Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-04-21 12:46 p.m., Jeff Young wrote:
> KiCad will read them in either way (quoted or un-quoted).
>
> KiCad has always written them out with quotes if they had spaces in them (so other tools have always needed to handle quotes).
>
> We????????re just being more consistent now as there????????s no justification for ???????saving a few characters??????? in this day and age (and going forward it will make things easier).
[snip]
> > > (layers
> > >     (0 F.Cu signal)
> > >     (31 B.Cu signal)
> > >
> > > (layers
> > >     (0 "F.Cu" signal)
> > >     (31 "B.Cu" signal)

Thanks for the reply, Jeff. I'll check whether my Perl scripts include the 
quotes. I'm also going to bump the file format version I'm outputting to the 
files I generate and hope there aren't any undocumented changes that will 
give KiCad a problem when it tries to read the schematic and/or library file.

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