fixed corroupted checkboxes that contain corroupted characters

[rsasuresh]

Summary

Type of Change

• eat — New feature
• ix — Bug fix
• docs — Documentation only
• style — Formatting, no code change
• [ ]
  efactor — Code restructuring without behavior change
• est — Add or fix tests
• �uild — Build system or dependency changes
• ci — CI/CD pipeline changes
• perf — Performance improvement

Changes

Testing

• Unit tests pass (ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure)
• Integration tests pass
• Manual testing performed
• New tests added for new functionality

Pre-Submission Checklist

• Code compiles without warnings (-Wall -Wextra -Werror for C)
• All existing tests pass
• New tests added for new functionality
• Documentation updated if API changed
• Commit messages follow (): convention
• Branch is rebased on latest master

Related Issues

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Additional Notes

[Aswin-V]

Thanks for catching this, @rsasuresh — the fix is correct: those stray backslashes (\f, \e, \t...) were being read as escape sequences and corrupting the checkbox list, and your PR body above actually demonstrates the bug (note \feat / \fix in the Type of Change section, rendered from the old template).

Three small things before this can land:

1. Linked-issue policy is failing on this PR (policy / Policy / Linked Issue) — every PR needs a linked issue. Please file one for the template fix (or ask a maintainer to link it).
2. Typo in the commit message: "corroupted" → "corrupted" (twice). A quick git commit --amend keeps the history clean.
3. Per repo convention the eventual merge is a maintainer call — leaving that to @Aswin-V / @srpatcha.

Not merging (review-only) — just noting what's needed.