diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b899f317..6e8e928c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -18107,3 +18107,6 @@
 2018-12-06 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
 	* Removed support for the 'priv' argument in callbacks in PyPAD
 	scripts.
+2018-12-06 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
+	* Added support for '\b', '\f', '\n' '\r' and '\t' control escapes
+	in the 'PyPADUpdate::padFields()' method.
diff --git a/apis/PyPAD/api/PyPAD.py b/apis/PyPAD/api/PyPAD.py
index 187905aa..49d62924 100644
--- a/apis/PyPAD/api/PyPAD.py
+++ b/apis/PyPAD/api/PyPAD.py
@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ class PyPADUpdate(object):
                string=self.__replace('%'+chr(i),string)
         for i in range(101,123):
                string=self.__replace('%'+chr(i),string)
+        string=string.replace('\\b','\b')
+        string=string.replace('\\f','\f')
+        string=string.replace('\\n','\n')
+        string=string.replace('\\r','\r')
+        string=string.replace('\\t','\t')
         return string
 
     def hasNowPad(self):