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Illegal Character in Library Fields

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Category: PCB Footprint Expert
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Forum Description: issues and technical support
URL: https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3311
Printed Date: 12 Oct 2024 at 7:24pm


Topic: Illegal Character in Library Fields
Posted By: tgrodnicki
Subject: Illegal Character in Library Fields
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2023 at 5:51am
Characters "ó" (Latin Small Letter O with Acute) or "Ó" (Latin Capital Letter O with Acute) are not allowed in library fields.
Other Polish diacritics are acceptable.

Footprint Expert 23 Enterprise Edition 23.11, 8/25/2023


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Posted By: Tom H
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2023 at 7:49am
The FPX file is ASCII format. 

Any "Symbol" is illegal in an ASCII database. People copy/paste data from a PDF file into a FPX cell and then the database becomes corrupt. 

You can open the FPX file in Excel spreadsheet and locate the damage easily and remove it. But to get the Excel data back to FPX you must copy/paste the Excel rows and columns into an ASCII text editor like Notepad and then save the file back to .fpx format. 

Common illegal Symbols are - ™ ©  ±  °  µ  ®  €  Ã




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Posted By: tgrodnicki
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2023 at 10:42pm
I thought that since the 2020 database was accepting such characters, the current behavior was a bug.
In this case, the program should not allow the input of characters with ASCII codes outside the range 20-127.

If the database data format will be changed in the future, you can try to support Unicode encoding.

Posted By: Jeff.M
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2023 at 4:03pm
Error checking added to library paste and edit operations that will flag and fix any illegal characters with ASCII codes of less than 32 or greater than 126.

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Posted By: Tom H
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2023 at 7:44am
Download and install V23.13 to get this update - http://www.pcblibraries.com/downloads" rel="nofollow - www.pcblibraries.com/downloads



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