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The problem lies a bit deeper. "\ " works well, the problem is that tcl/tk doesn't let you put "\ " in a message box (simplified explanation).
As a pd beginner, I was puzzeled by this at first. I tried the same, but got messages like '\ dropped' in the terminal window whenever I tried escaping special characters like space, comma, semicolon and quotes in messages.
Symbols do allow for spaces. As spaces are a symbol delimiter by default, they have to be escaped in order to be part of a symbol. So its not a problem of pd syntax, more one of implementation/GUI issues
Is there a good mechanism to enter escaped characters through the GUI, or do you just have to hack them into the .pd files with a text editor?
I find having to use constructs with list2symbol or makefilename etc a bit annoying, and highly confusing in terms of patch readability.