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[j_kay]

We're having an issue where some of our longer description text is overhanging in the description box on our grid screen. I would expect that this text would be automatically truncated with an ellipse, but instead it just overflows.

For example:

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http://www.youtube.com/user/mythingawesome

http://www.youtube.com/user/foobar
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http://www.youtube.com/user/wlkajsdklfjasdf <---- this line overflows the grid box


I would expect the text instead to be truncated if it was too long, ie:

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http://www.youtube.com/user/mythingawesome

http://www.youtube.com/user/foobar http... <--- last line gets truncated
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Truncating texts works if there are shorter "words" in the text description, ie:

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sdjf a sjka jkd sfk asd f asd kfa dsklf adsf lasd fasd

adsjkasdf sad sdafads asd a sdfadlsk asdf asdflk as....
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In this case truncation works as it should without us having to set up anything special.

[j_kay]

For example, we store the description text as:

"http://www.youtube.com/nkalexander7\nhttp://twitter.com/#!/nigelalexander7\nhttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?sk=group_117677198294763&ap=1\nhttp://www.nkavids.com\nhttp://www.markisaco.com"

Please note the line breaks "\n" and lack of whitespace.

I would expect that text with this many characters would simply be truncated with an ellipse (...), but instead it overflows. I'm wondering if there's a bug with the roku truncation or line break method. Is this something we can control or optimize?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks