display error bug for long lines in fields?

[Klaus on-rev]

Hi Paul,

Am 13.10.2012 um 15:12 schrieb Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com>:

> It is not the same symptoms as you report, but we ran into a "long line"
> rendering bug a while back (now resolved) in
> http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10325
> It may be related.

hmm, obviously this has NOT been resolve in 5.5.2! :-/

> On 10/13/2012 7:11 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote:
>> Hi friends,
>> 
>> someone already experienced this?
>> 
>> I have some long, but not too long, TAB delimited lines in a list field.
>> 
>> Now some lines look like the very last item is on top of the first item, like this one:
>> <http://major-k.de//temp/display_error.jpg>
>> 
>> And ALL of the lines do only hile a couple of pixels at the beginning, only part of the first character.
>> 
>> I checked the length of these lines, but they are lower than the official limits:
>> Max characters per line in a field = 16 bit = 64 kb
>> LENGTH() of the lines is actually shorter than this limit < 6000.
>> 
>> I already have a workaround, but wanted to know if this is a bug, before I report this.
>> 
>> Any hints much appreciated, thanks!

Best

Klaus

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