I spoke too soon! The Escape sequences work within the Solution Builder, but not when the scheduled report is run. It's apparent that the text is not being read-in as is, rather the Escape sequences are converted to literals before the email is sent which causes the text to fail at the reserved character. I checked the .rrd file with a text editor and the Escape sequences are written correctly. It's okay, I rewrote the email body without the reserved characters and it should work fine. However, I think it may be a simple programming fix to read-in the .rrd without altering the Escape sequences.