It's possible for the player to put escape sequences into strings via
dogname/catname/fruit options (or probably interactively by using "\233"
instead of "\033["--the two character 7-bit version wouldn't work because
its leading ESC gets treated as player's request to abort current input,
but the 8-bit version probably works, I just can't test it because I don't
know how to type such things with this terminal emulator). Such sequences
can do funny things like clear the screen and say "game over" (or worse
with creative abuse of some terminals' "answer back" capability--when
reproducing the reported situation, I kept things simple and had my dog's
name underlined and fruit name blinking; they displayed correctly but
nethack was confused about how long they were since it doesn't expect to
be given characters which don't advance the cursor). This fix still lets
users experiment with such stuff during their own games, but it replaces
suspect characters while loading bones data, so if one player creates a
bones file with suspect strings in it, another can--I hope--be able to
use that file safely.
Monster and object names, engravings, and named fruits are handled.
For the last, if uncensored string matches one already present then it
leaves that alone, so bones data created with same OPTIONS=fruit:whatever
as being used in the current game will continue to keep the same value.