AR #32527 - 11.1 ISE - Are Asian characters allowed in the directory path for Project Navigator projects?

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11.1 ISE - Are Asian characters allowed in the directory path for Project Navigator projects?

AR# 32527
Part SW-Project Navigator
Last Modified 2009-04-23 00:00:00.0
Status Active
Keywords Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Asian, unicode, Map, PAR, XST, iMPACT, directory, path

Description

Keywords: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Asian, unicode, Map, PAR, XST, iMPACT, directory, path

With ISE 11.1, it appears that I am able to create a project in a directory where the path contains Asian characters. Are Asian characters supported in the directory path for Project Navigator projects?

Solution

No, Project Navigator incorrectly allows a project to be created or copied to a directory with Asian characters in the directory path. The underlying Xilinx applications do not support double byte characters (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) in a file path and will fail to complete successfully.

In a coming software update, Project Navigator will be fixed to prevent users from using Asian characters in a file and path.

Filenames for ISE projects and for project source files must start with a letter (A-Z, a-z) and must contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) and underscores (_).

The directory path for an ISE project must contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9), dashes (-), periods (.), spaces, and underscores (_).
 
 
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