Comment 6 for bug 1732236

> It's not as if I didn't think about it. It's one of those damned if you
> do, damned if you don't decisions. If I automatically replace illegal
> characters, someone will file a bug report about symbol names not being
> respected. If I don't replace the illegal characters, then you could
> end up with broken symbol links. I'm fine with changing this if that
> what most users prefer.

Sorry, that's a false dichotomy. The only choices are not "fix it silently in the background" and "do nothing". We already have a nice new dialog that handles remapping, it should do this interactively.

Look, I don't want to go on another big ranty UX crusade, especially when I haven't been active lately... but this is bad. Fixing the way this mangled one of my projects took way more "power user" kicad knowledge than we can realistically expect users to have.