Additional text glyphs added to a drawTextInRect string

[fosterdouglas (Foster Douglas / Everyday Lemonade)]

I posted a few weeks back about an issue with string length for localized text. I think that was misdiagnosed by me, and it's potentially related directly to the drawTextInRect() function.

The original bug report is here:

Maximum string length for localized text drawing

I'm running into an unpredictable but relatively reproducible bug with an en.strings file having a key/string pair that's too long for drawLocalizedText() to properly locate and draw. The character limit seems to be somewhere around 1005 characters, although that also seems somewhat unpredictable with exactly how many characters it breaks at. I've also had it work fine in some tests where I remove every other key/string pair from the en.strings file, but this also hasn't been easily reproducibl…

Now, using a standard string unrelated to localization, I'm seeing a manifestation of the same issue potentially.

It seems to be adding underscores to the start of each newly created line, after a certain height size of the Rect?

Let me know if more clarity is needed. I can get around this for now probably, by using multiples of drawTextInRect() stacked on top of each other.

[fosterdouglas (Foster Douglas / Everyday Lemonade)]

With some additional testing, looks like it's directly related to the @ symbol. Trying to escape that character results in an "invalid escape sequence" error.

[fosterdouglas (Foster Douglas / Everyday Lemonade)]

Wow, never mind I'm an absolute dolt. Clearly it's the underscore.

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