display error bug for long lines in fields?

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Sat Oct 13 09:12:33 EDT 2012


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.

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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