Ben Hutchings wrote: > The dialog and whiptail programs support the escape sequence '\n' > which is converted to a new-line. However they do not provide any way > of printing this character sequence literally.
What a wonderful er, feature for dialog to have. :-P > Inserting the zero-width joiner U+2060 between the two characters > seems to be a valid workaround. However, I was unable to implement > this fix in Dialog.pm as that character is lost somewhere on the way > to execve(). I don't understand Perl's handling of character > encodings well enough to solve this myself. Can you send the patch you tried? -- see shy jo
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