When I am entering my escaped spaces it looks like this:

And upon removing focus from the message block, the \ characters remain there…

Now, upon saving my patch, i can open it in a text editor and see that my escape are gone!
After loading my patch the escapes are not present…

HOWEVER
If I manually add the escapes in the patch, it works!
Anonymous
Above, at last step, I am referring to manually adding the escapes via a text editor and then loading the patch.