Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #35181] Shortened menunames in tinymode not translated

[Tim Mann]

> (copying the tranlated item names to a buffer, and zeroing a byte in it based on the board width
> through an emperically derived linear formula that worked for English before sending it to the X-server).

If the item name is in UTF-8, doing that blindly can leave you with an invalid UTF-8 character at the end of the truncated string. In fact you might end up with no valid characters, just one invalid one.