In order to prevent illegal file name characters when converting footprint libraries from legacy and eagle (and possibly others) to the PRETTY format, I modified Dick's original URL concept for illegal FPID characters to include all illegal file name characters. In order to guarantee that PRETTY footprint files would be compatible across all platforms I had the use the Windows illegal file name character set (which includes the Linux and OSX characters sets). This means that if you have any legacy or eagle footprints with any of the characters \/:"<>|*? in footprint name, they will be converted to %xx where xx is the hexadecimal equivalent of the character when the library is loaded. For example, if you have a footprint named FOO/BAR, it will be converted to FOO%2fBAR when loaded. This will be the name that is displayed in CvPcb, the footprint editor, the footprint viewer, and the file name when saved a PRETTY footprint library. I decided to go this route rather than creating nag warnings to change the footprint names when saving the library to the PRETTY format. I also add filters to the footprint name text edit controls so you will no longer be able to use any illegal file name characters when naming footprints. I don't think this will effect too many users but there have been a few reports of this issue so I wanted to give everyone a heads up.
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