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Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb import schematic crash, parantheses in netname
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:15 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> DJ... You wrote the action stuff, and the new import tool, what are your
>> thoughts on legal character set?  (Should it match whatever we can read in
>> .net files? Any idea what that allows? (I'm not currently at my computer).
>
> I'm going to stick with "UTF-8" and quote anything the action syntax
> uses.  I.e. make it an exlude list (via quoting), not an include list.
>
> We may not support all of UTF-8 everywhere, but that's no excuse not
> to aim for that target whenever we touch the code.

The excuse is that doing that will lead to bugs.  The additional
expressiveness from a wider character set is minimal and not worth it.
I agree with Peter it's better to support a limited set well than a
more extensive one inconsistently.  Programs should reject all bad
input, and that includes input that for whatever reason they don't yet
support consistently, even if in theory they could.

Britton