Designer 2 shows line break symbols in my TEXT layer names?

[Otto Manuel]

Hi,

 I have noticed on a few occasions that the names in the layer column of my TEXT objects include a line break symbol that I would expect to be hidden.

 Is that a selectable option that I can turn off? Is it a bug? Is it intended behavior?

 Designer v 2.56 Win 10 x64

[Oufti]

If you don't explicitly name the text layers, they are provisionally named (in grey) with the first characters of the text flow. If these contain any special characters (tabs, line feed, carriage return…), their symbol is used. 

I don't know any way to hide them, aside naming the layers. 

[walt.farrell]

17 hours ago, Otto Manuel said:

Is that a selectable option that I can turn off? Is it a bug? Is it intended behavior?

No, no, and (as far as I know) yes.

As you can see in @Oufti's screenshot, a named layer has the name in bold, while an unnamed layer has a non-bold description, rather than a name. And the description will contain the special characters.

[MikeTO]

The same special character symbols appear wherever text is displayed in a panel such as in the Find and Replace and Index panel lists. You can't turn them off - I find them rather helpful myself.

[Otto Manuel]

I can't recall ever seeing them in my old Win 7 Designer 1 install that I had used for many years, but I opened up v1 on my new Win 10 laptop install, and sure enough, they are there.

I think they would have bugged me long before having recently noticed them on my new v2 install.

I can see why some would like them, but I feel like they are just distracting.

Thank you.