App version
Beta
Issue description
This has been an issue for ages but I couldn’t figure the cause and I found a workaround, so I forgot about it. Ran into it again while working on another theme, so here we are.
Under the following conditions:
- Custom string has 2+ lines
- output of string ends with
\n - the blank line created exceeds the selected “line count”
the app will print an extra character at the end of the last visible line. This extra character causes text on that line to be misaligned and clipped by the text box. (This extra character may not be visible but it still affects alignment.)
Device type
Phone
Media provider
All
Steps to reproduce
Demo NPS: nps-Newline Tester-20260619_233914-symfonium.json (37.9 KB)
Custom string of the format:
1\n2\n
With line count set to be one less than the number of lines in the string. (E.g. the three-line string above should be set to a max line count of two.
Most easily noticed when string’s horizontal alignment is set to Right.
Additional information
No extra character is printed when using %lb% instead of \n, so the issue is specifically with \n usage.
Pic 1: ChromeOS displays a ⌧ for this extra character. (If not for this, I never would’ve figured out the problem.)
The top two pairs have the same text but the first pair uses \n while the second pair uses %lb%. The first pair clearly cuts off the start.
Pic 2: On my Phone, extra character is not visible but still affects alignment. (Horizontal margins are set to zero.)
Pic 3: a more normal scenario. My workaround was to just enable an overlay (as seen at bottom) to prevent the text clipping. But I see now that the alignment is still off due to the extra character.
Screenshots
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Log upload name / description
Celorien_Newline
I’ll have both work like LB for consistency but the trailing \n will no more work.