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Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb import schematic crash, parantheses in netname
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> Unless I misread, gnetlist is just fine.. it was PCB's import feature which
> failed.

PCB's import feature uses gnetlist...

> The gnet-pcbfwd.scm back-end appears not to be escaping any strings it
> forms PCB action strings with - which means either it needs to restrict the
> strings to the subset which won't trip up the action parser, or we need to
> add quoting + escaping to our gnetlist backend, and the appropriate
> unquoting / decoding to PCB.

Right.

> but I still question the wisdom of allowing arbitrary stuff like
> whitespace, tabs, newlines etc.. inside netnames.

That's a limitation imposed by the tools, not the netlister.