gEDA-user: net labels question

[al davis]

On Sunday 06 April 2008 13:33, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Would it be very hard to make net names more robust against use of
> all the characters printed on modern keyboard? Footprint names could
> benefit from such robustness too. Hyphens in the footprint brought
> quite a bit of frustration during my early days of geda adoption.

It's not a matter of difficulty.  The various targets have specs that 
say what it should be.  We should follow the spec, even if we disagree 
with it.

The real question:  Should gschem attempt to enforce naming conventions 
of the various targets?

My opinion:  No, but the netlister should convert non-compliant names to 
compliant names, and conversion back should restore the original name.