id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 7047 DXF: Incorrect text escaping behaviour Alan Thomas warmerdam "The behaviour of AutoCAD is to apply %%d, %%c and %%p escapes in the text content of TEXT, MTEXT and DIMENSION objects only. Additionally, backslash escapes like \P and \~ only work on MTEXT objects. Layer names and the like do not honor any escapes See the attached DXF file, screenshot and patch. ogrinfo currently issues the following output for this DXF file: {{{ OGRFeature(Entities):0 OGR_GEOMETRY (String) = POINT Layer (String) = MyLayer°∅ SubClasses (String) = AcDbEntity:AcDbText:AcDbText EntityHandle (String) = EEEF0 Text (String) = singleline%%D∅\\P\Pmore\~text Style = LABEL(f:""YourTextStyle°∅"",t:""singleline%%D∅\\P\Pmore\~text"",p:1,s:1g,c:#000000) POINT Z (0 0 0) OGRFeature(Entities):1 OGR_GEOMETRY (String) = POINT Layer (String) = MyLayer°∅ SubClasses (String) = AcDbEntity:AcDbMText EntityHandle (String) = EEEEF Text (String) = multiline°∅\P more text Style = LABEL(f:""Arial"",t:""multiline°∅\P more text"",s:1g,p:7,c:#000000) POINT Z (0 5 0) }}} The layer name and contents of the TEXT object are incorrect." defect new normal OGR_SF svn-trunk normal dxf