text appears truncated or wrapped on android

[sqwishy]

For example

Version 27.209.

Its been like this for a while so not a recent breakage.

[chrisbobbe]

Thanks for the report, @sqwishy!

I think the most likely cause is an issue in React Native, the framework this app is built in. If so, it should be possible to work around the bug by changing your system font settings, under Settings → Display → Font size and style.

In previous reports of similar issues, users found that the "Bold text" setting was on, and the text displayed correctly after they turned that off. In your case, however, the text doesn't look bold to me…hmm. I think the font does look different from the usual system font that most people use, though, does that sound right? I'm curious if choosing a different font might fix it.

This is one of many reasons we're looking forward to launching a new app built in Flutter (not React Native): https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter

[gnprice]

Cross-linking a bit: our first issue for the same underlying problem was #2365, and we saw it again at #3533 (comment) and #2447 (comment) . The ongoing thread for it is #2447.

Leaving this open because it is an ongoing bug in this app, but at this point we're not going to fix it in this codebase. If you see anything like this in the new Flutter app, though (now in beta!), we'll definitely be interested in debugging that.