Reusing PGC & PGD pins

[Demon]

Do not risk reliability and toss the resistor.
Use the internal pull-up with low going switch and you will be just fine.

Ioannis

I'm using the internal pull-ups.

The signal from the encoders reaches the PIC pins with the 10K series and 0.01uF to ground (as per Bourns design), but not if I add that 2nd 10K isolation resistor towards pins B6 and B7.

The original Bourns design has the pull-up/down resistors BEFORE the 10K/0.01uF combo.

(gonna do some experiments)