Checking the latest note in the changelog, this bug might have been fixed recently: http://invisible-island.net/dialog/CHANGES.html#t20121230 2016/04/24 + fix a special case in drawing shadow on a line-drawing cell where the alternate-character set flag was lost (report by Martin Kravec). + fix a regression from 2015/05/13 changes for escaping; it is necessary to retain backslashes within quotes to make "\Z" escapes work (report by Marcin Krol).
WAIT & SEE a future release of dialog (1.4 by guessing). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1549300 Title: dialog wrongly requires double backslashes (\\n, \\Z) for control codes in option file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dialog/+bug/1549300/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
