From 83a56263d0e3fb3413ad436596094538bb5fb202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Young <jeff@rokeby.ie>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:40:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Strip returns, tabs and linefeeds from SCH fields.

Fixes: lp:1783285
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1783285
---
 eeschema/dialogs/dialog_fields_editor_global.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/eeschema/dialogs/dialog_fields_editor_global.cpp b/eeschema/dialogs/dialog_fields_editor_global.cpp
index 7662d1dc37..65663d371b 100644
--- a/eeschema/dialogs/dialog_fields_editor_global.cpp
+++ b/eeschema/dialogs/dialog_fields_editor_global.cpp
@@ -301,11 +301,16 @@ public:
         if( aCol == REFERENCE || aCol == QUANTITY_COLUMN )
             return;             // Can't modify references or quantity
 
+        wxString value( aValue );
+        value.Replace( "\r", "\\r" );
+        value.Replace( "\n", "\\n" );
+        value.Replace( "\t", "\\t" );
+
         DATA_MODEL_ROW& rowGroup = m_rows[ aRow ];
         wxString fieldName = m_fieldNames[ aCol ];
 
         for( const auto& ref : rowGroup.m_Refs )
-            m_dataStore[ ref.GetComp()->GetTimeStamp() ][ fieldName ] = aValue;
+            m_dataStore[ ref.GetComp()->GetTimeStamp() ][ fieldName ] = value;
 
         m_edited = true;
     }