Fixed line height didn’t fix the problem but thanks for the suggestion.

However, looking more closely there are 3 visible characters where cr should 
be.   They are â9u except 9u is constant and the first character is almost 
always there, but varies wildly.  Often an underscore but also accented a, e or 
u.  Even more weirdly, if I search the field for ‘9u', several lines are found, 
but not any in the mutant line.  

And yet more weirdly again, when the line is displayed in a field with wrap 
true, the weird three characters appear at the beginning of ‘new lines’ except 
they are not actually new lines because they highlight as a single block.  An 
invisible form feed?  or something else between 9 and u  that a wrapping field 
decides is a wrap point but confuses the hell out of a non-wrapping field?

If I thought this was just a weird one off, I would shrug my shoulders and move 
on.

Shall I do that, and we will never speak of this again?

Best wishes,

David G

> On 17 Mar 2022, at 7:21 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3/17/22 10:58 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote:
>> Examining it, it looks like it ought to be a number of separate lines, and 
>> it also contains weird visible and also white space that is not a simple 
>> space.  I can’t see any recognisable pattern to suggest where cr should be.
> 
> I usually copy the mysterious character and in the message box: put 
> charToNum(the clipboarddata)
> 
> That gives me something to look up in an ascii or unicode table. Then you can 
> replace all those characters with space or whatever seems reasonable for the 
> data. That may give you a clue as to what the line should actually be.
> 
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