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Custom localization: item/food names in building internal storage are truncated to 2–3 characters due to specific prefix

Maris

By Maris

    • Branch: Live Branch Version: Windows Fixed

When using a custom localization (via strings.po, it's attached), item and food names displayed in the internal storage panel of buildings are severely truncated, showing only 2–3 visible characters instead of the full name.

The root cause appears to be that a <sub>x</sub> tag (where x is a single letter) is prepended to each item name in this localization. This issue **only** affects the internal storage view of buildings.
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Steps to Reproduce

1. Apply a custom localization that uses translated item/food names (load the attached strings.po).
2. Start a new game (or load the attached save file, doesn't matter).
3. Open a building's internal storage panel.
4. Observe that item/food names are truncated to 2–3 characters.

Expected result: Item names are displayed in full (or truncated reasonably).
Actual result: Names are reduced to 2–3 visible characters.

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Maris

Note that there are full category names, but truncated element names.
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This is a bug for sure.

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Maris

Russian localization from Klei:
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I guess the length is counted by bytes, not by visible characters.
(Russian UTF8 letter are counted as 2 bytes)
ALSO any tags like <sub> or <sup> are counted as 5 bytes each.

I think the proper way is to count line width, not bytes and not even letters.

Again, localization from Klei:

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Aprica

This really does seem like an issue: some names don't fit in the line, even though there is still space in the card for the characters and the name of the dropdown list fits completely. It looks strange, and it would be great if you could fix this.

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Maris

The fonts in the game have changed, but the bug that affects all localizations (including English) remains. Hm...

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