Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.2) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux The Comments edit box lets the user type multiple lines of text. Indeed, because word wrap is disabled, it encourages the user to enter hard newline characters. Unfortunately, those newline characters are passed to the fax program, which can't cope. HylaFax is the only fax program that actually does anything with comments, and if your comments include a hard newline, sendfax reports the following error: 500 'JPARM COMMENTS "testing.': Syntax error, unmatched quote mark You can see how other programs might copy, too. For example, use "echo <%comment>" as a custom fax program. If the Comments contain a hard newline, the following error results: Sending to fax using: echo <'testing. more testing'> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `more testing'> ' A workaround for HylaFax is to use \n instead of newline. That makes the text hard to read and hard to edit, but at least, you can get a hard newline in the fax comments.
Isn't the same as bug #126085?
Sorry about that. I have a list of kdeprintfax issues, and I forgot which ones I had already entered.
IMO the right solution would be to accept whatever the user puts in the widget (be it rigged with newlines or not) and then take the raw text and strip offensive characters and eventually word-wrap according to page size etc.
Closing old Resolved status bug.