Diacritics are cutoff in ScrollingLabel

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In using ScrollingLabel and LabelList, I’ve been facing a problem getting diacritics on capital letters to render properly. A character with an circumflex, for example “Ô”, will get clipped when in a scrolling label, but not a normal label. This occurs regardless of whether the string is long enough to be truncated. This behavior can also be seen on the focused item of a LabelList.

A reduced test case can be found at: Prepacked bundle)

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From the test case, the code of primarily note is:


<ScrollingLabel
   translation="[100,100]"
   text="gjyÖÔÑÈgjyÖÔÑÈgjyÖÔÑÈ"
   maxWidth="300"
   height="70"
   />

From the docs this appears to be the correct way to use this element. However I may have overlooked something. Any recommendations? Perhaps this an issue with ScrollingLabel itself?

This behavior has been seen on v7.7.x and v8.0.0.

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my guess is this is a bug, something overlooked when the component was created. Good on you reporting it with a test case, maybe even Roku Co will fix it, someday.
If you need this to work in any kind of timeframe my suggestion is build a custom component that does what you need.

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“onebytegone” wrote:
In using ScrollingLabel and LabelList, I’ve been facing a problem getting diacritics on capital letters to render properly. A character with an circumflex, for example “Ô”, will get clipped when in a scrolling label, but not a normal label. This occurs regardless of whether the string is long enough to be truncated. This behavior can also be seen on the focused item of a LabelList.
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Issue confirmed, ticket filed.