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Sender name in Private Tell is truncated, with blank message

Server: Virtue
Zone: ALL
Character name: NA
Time: NA
Location: NA
Mission: NA
Mission Contact: NA
Bug Description: The sender name in received Private Tell is sometimes truncated, with a blank message. Frequency is maybe one out of every few hundred received private tells. In these tells, half or more characters of the first part of the senders name is missing. Attempting to reply does not reveal who sent the private tell, which is ignored: what is used instead is the last received private tell that had a complete name. This makes it impossible to know who sent it, unless they happen to be on the Global list, and even then takes time to figure out and disambiguate. I've had about 25 teammates confirm they are experiencing this, which they refer to as "The chat bug", "ate the tell" "lost tell" etc.

This bug causes extreme irritation when people are hoping to be invited to teams and wonder if they are missing invites, or offending globals and friends by "ignoring' their tells. Its also embarassing when you send a tell to a global or friend list person asking if they sent a tell that was eaten, and they reply it wasn't sent by them, sorry.

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Chat text entry cursor does not honor click location for placement

Server: NA
Zone: NA
Character name: NA
Time: NA
Location: NA
Mission: NA
Mission Contact: NA
Bug Description: Chat text entry cursor often does not honor click location for placement. To replicate:

1) Fill the chat text entry field so that there are almost the maximum allowable number of characters. Do NOT click Enter/Return.
2) Position the cursor over the chat text entry field, anywhere in the last half of the characters, or following the characters at the end of the line.
3) Click the mouse to insert the text entry cursor into the chat text entry field.
4) Observe the position of the text entry cursor: it is not where the user clicked, it is in a seemingly random location eleseware in the chat text entry field, usually near the front of middle of the line.

Note: This bug can sometimes be reproduced with less text present in the chat text entry field, or by clicking in the first half of the characters, but is more consistently seen with the steps provided above. The only way to work around this bug when it occurs (which is 90% frequency for me), is to use the arrow keys to move left and right through the characters. Using the arrow keys to navigate is a painfully slow way to scroll in the chat text entry field, which users need to do, to correct misspellings and modify chat content before sending. Of all the bugs this one is the one most important to me to fix, as it slows down my ability to chat, interfereing with the primary reason I play, which is to stay in touch with and chat with friends. This bug is new to issue 13.

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