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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« on: March 20, 2026, 18:39:45 »

[SOLVED]

I experimented with the settings long time and I FIND IT!

This is the change, which breaks the display:

Explorer Panel Settings > Display > Gridlines > Auto adjust text if it is too long

If I remove this option (I prefer to keep the text size, because of the eyes problem), the name do not displays properly, but if this is ON - as default - everything displays OK.
I admit the Chatgpt helped me in investigation.

But why this option breaks the displaying?!

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« on: March 20, 2026, 09:36:46 »

@Jungle,

This displays as strange symbols.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« on: March 20, 2026, 09:32:48 »

@Mathias,
I have Segoe UI and Segoe UI Emojis fonts... I also tried Consolas font like it is monospace... the same result.
As I said, the Windows Explorer and Double Commander shows the file properly.

I suppose that the text size in drawing is not processed correctly. You also can try with my current font:
Segoe UI Black 12.

But the font choice does not changes anything at me.
Also I see that the emoji at you also is not shown as must be (crying face).

I attach my settings, please, can you try them temporary for experiment. I like Multi Commander more than all alternatives, but can't understand this problem by myself.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« on: March 19, 2026, 17:35:15 »

The issue is not encoding-related. Multi Commander appears to incorrectly handle UTF-16 surrogate pairs (e.g. emoji like 😭).

This leads to broken text measurement and rendering, especially for long filenames. The behavior depending on string length strongly suggests a layout calculation bug.

Additionally, font fallback for emoji (Segoe UI Emoji) does not seem to work correctly, resulting in missing glyphs.

The same filenames render correctly in Windows Explorer and Double Commander, so the issue is specific to Multi Commander.

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Support and Feedback / Filename displaying issues

« on: March 19, 2026, 14:26:07 »

Some filenames displays strange. For example:
Just create empty file with this name:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa😭.txt

It not displays at all. I use the default Segoe UI font. (Windows 11 Pro 64 bit).

IMPORTANT!!!: The display way depends on two things:
1. Must have anywhere special UTF symbol like 😭.
2. The display way differs at different name length. For example:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa😭.txt - do not displays at all (background color)

but little shorter for example:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa😭.txt - it is shown with strange symbol for the "a" (see the attach).
At most of other length (number of symbols "a"), it displays ok (except the special UTF symbol; not completely research).

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Support and Feedback / Re: [BUG] Unicode NOT work

« on: January 11, 2026, 14:12:46 »

Just an example filenames properly displayed in the native Windows 11 File Explorer and not in the Multi Commander (default font Segoe UI).
As I could attach the files here I copy the names (in the Browser are OK):

TRY3 ПРИМЕР ты ⧸ Za.txt - not showed properly in MC
TRY2 ПРИМЕР 🎸💝 Эта .txt - not showed properly in MC
TRY1 ПРИМЕР (강남스타일) ❤️.txt - this Multi commander shows OK

And the most mysterious is that result varies in dependence what is the symbols arrangement in the name, also how long is the name (because it zooms out to have place in the cell), what font is set, etc. Even sometimes the name is displayed empty!

Like using byte strings for unicode and are not aligned to codesymbol every time. I don't know.

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Support and Feedback / [BUG] Unicode NOT work

« on: January 10, 2026, 19:31:53 »

I tried different fonts, but SOME filenames are not displayed properly, many even japan or even non letters symbols are displayed in some fonts, but some other - not.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / [Request] Common folder tree

« on: January 07, 2026, 22:39:55 »

Please, make settings for one common Folder tree, which works with the currently active pannel (left/right).
This is very useful for small displays (laptop). Similar feature is in Double commander and Q-Dir.