Handle backslash in escape function.

Fixes: #4595.
Candidate for stable

diff --git a/src/support/lstrings.cpp b/src/support/lstrings.cpp
index f4aba23c0a530d7c7e0aa4617b0950835776b875..012dc21635419230ee5b9d9b8f12233c41c88556 100644 (file)
--- a/src/support/lstrings.cpp
+++ b/src/support/lstrings.cpp
@@ -1179,7 +1179,8 @@ docstring const escape(docstring const & lab)
        for (size_t i = 0; i < lab.length(); ++i) {
                char_type c = lab[i];
                if (c >= 128 || c == '=' || c == '%' || c == '#' || c == '$'
-                   || c == '}' || c == '{' || c == ']' || c == '[' || c == '&') {
+                   || c == '}' || c == '{' || c == ']' || c == '[' || c == '&'
+                   || c == '\\') {
                        // Although char_type is a 32 bit type we know that
                        // UCS4 occupies only 21 bits, so we don't need to
                        // encode bigger values. Test for 2^24 because we

diff --git a/status.22x b/status.22x
index 65872abe215d4aabd4cc99f8380c652253dc2e4f..7fd3b2a099ef98d3b5e661278856e584798ee98e 100644 (file)
--- a/status.22x
+++ b/status.22x
@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ What's new
 - Protect citation arguments (pre and post text) which contain brackets
   (part of bug 2751).
 
+- Handle backslash in label and ref insets (bug 4595).
+
 
 * LYX2LYX