Re: Weirdness with account title in register window

On 09/20/2023 14:33, John Pollard wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 6:38:24 PM UTC-5, Kobac wrote:
>> On 09/19/2023 19:32, Kobac wrote:
>>> A little while back, I changed all of the account names in my Quicken
>>> file to include an em dash (using ALT+0151 on my keyboard) as opposed to
>>> a regular dash because it just looked better when looking at the account
>>> names in the account bar.
>>>
>>> Today I was in Quicken and noticed that any account name that had the em
>>> dash in its name had been truncated in the upper left of the register
>>> window, with the last 3 characters of the account name being replaced
>>> with an ellipsis (...). Name length did not appear to be a factor since
>>> it happened even with accounts containing only ten characters, including
>>> spaces. I started changing the em dashes back to regular dashes and the
>>> full account names then appeared in the register window.
>   
>>> Has this happened to anyone else
> 
> I can reproduce it in 552.20 and R50.16. It also happens in Q2017 ... but not in Q2013.
> 
>>> and does anyone know *why* this happens?
> 
> Not really.
> 
> Quicken may not even realize that it is happening or why.
> 
> Or perhaps they intentionally changed the way they processed
> characters in the account register row that holds the Account Name
> and the Account Action Bar - thinking no one would be using (or
> needing to use) undocumented ascii characters in their account names).
> 
> An en-dash does not exhibit the problem in any of
> the above Quicken versions.
> 
>> I should mention I'm using the latest Quicken version 27.1.52.20
>> under Windows 10 Pro version 22H2.
> 
> I'm using the same Windows version.
> 
> Since the problem is easy to reproduce; I suggest you create a
> Quicken test file with one account that demonstrates the problem.
> Then use the Quicken Help > Report a problem feature to tell
> Quicken about the problem - and send the test data file with the
> report. Don't expect an answer from Quicken.

Thanks, John. I think I'll set up that test file and send it to them.