Text overwriting itself in non wrapping field

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/17/22 10:58 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote:
> Examining it, it looks like it ought to be a number of separate lines, and it also contains weird visible and also white space that is not a simple space.  I can’t see any recognisable pattern to suggest where cr should be.

I usually copy the mysterious character and in the message box: put charToNum(the clipboarddata)

That gives me something to look up in an ascii or unicode table. Then you can replace all those 
characters with space or whatever seems reasonable for the data. That may give you a clue as to 
what the line should actually be.

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