What causes translations truncated with an ellipsis instead of wrapping?

Labels are set to truncate with an ellipsis when they exceed their box, so longer translations lose the end of the text and players never see the full string.

How do I catch this when it only happens for some players?

Capture it automatically from the player's device with the full stack trace, the device and OS, the build, and a breadcrumb trail of what they did. That turns a vague complaint into a specific, reproducible issue you can fix without owning the hardware it happens on.

How to Fix Long Translations Getting Truncated With an Ellipsis Instead of Wrapping

Quick answer: Decide per element whether to wrap to additional lines, auto-shrink within a floor, or show the full text on hover, so meaning is never silently cut off.

An ellipsis on a translated label can hide the important part of a sentence. Choosing reflow or shrink over truncation fixes it. Here is how.

How to fix it

1. Prefer reflow over truncation

Allow text containers to grow to additional lines for translated content so the full string is visible, reserving truncation only for cosmetic, non-essential labels.

2. Auto-shrink within a readable floor

Where vertical space is fixed, let the font auto-shrink down to a minimum readable size before any clipping, so longer translations still fit legibly.

3. Expose the full text on demand

When truncation is unavoidable, attach a tooltip or expandable view showing the complete string so the hidden portion remains accessible to the player.

Catching the ones you can't reproduce

The hardest version of this to fix is the one you can't reproduce — it only happens on a player's hardware, OS, driver, or save state, under conditions that simply aren't present on your machine. A report that says “it crashed” or “it froze” gives you nothing to act on, so the bug survives release after release while quietly costing you players.

Automatic error capture closes that gap. Each failure arrives with its full stack trace, the device and OS, the build number, and a breadcrumb trail of what the player did right before it broke, so even a failure you have never seen becomes a specific, reproducible issue. Fold identical failures into one signature ranked by how many players each hits, and your worklist sorts itself worst-first instead of arriving as a stream of vague complaints.

This is where a tool like Bugnet earns its place. Its SDK captures every HTML5 error automatically with the full stack trace plus device, OS, memory, build, and game-state context, folds duplicates into one grouped issue with an occurrence count, and ties each to the build it first appeared on — so you fix the problem that hurts the most players first and confirm it is gone when its signature disappears from the next release.

Ship the fix, watch the signature disappear from the next build. That's how you know it's really gone.