I confirm this behaviour. With a plain text terminal, a clock report shows like:
|-------------------+------------------------------+--------+------+------| | willow-it.org | *File time* | *5:25* | | | | | Willow IT | 5:25 | | | | | \emsp Administration | | 3:44 | | | | \emsp\emsp Induction | | | 3:44 | | | \emsp Training & development | | 1:41 | | | | \emsp\emsp Odoo research | | | 1:41 | |-------------------+------------------------------+--------+------+------| The "\emsp" should be space characters (of some kind; either U+0020 SPC or U+2003 EM SPACE) with correct alignment for the character width. Displaying literal "\emsp" is a regression and should not happen. If having a U+2003 EM SPACE character is desirable, then instead of LaTeX-specific markup (which is useless in the text buffer), that character should appear directly in the data so it is useful for display. Thanks for working on Org Mode. -- Ben Finney