# Strange vertical letters to the left of the sidebar
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [July 30, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939 "2014-07-30T17:46:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Dark\_T](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dark_T)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939/1 "2014-07-30T17:46:33Z")
What are those strange vertical letters that change to the left of the sidebar? Don’t know how to insert an image, so i linked it.
[http://imgur.com/texYQBT](http://imgur.com/texYQBT)
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### Author:  [@Datanazush](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Datanazush)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939/2 "2014-07-30T18:02:34Z")
I’m not quite sure what they are, but you can insert images using the image tags, [img][/img](No space there) and putting the images url between them, in this case, [http://i.imgur.com/texYQBT.png](http://i.imgur.com/texYQBT.png)
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### Author:  [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939/3 "2014-07-30T18:05:10Z")
Odd. Never used the narrow sidebar.
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### Author:  [@Dark\_T](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dark_T)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939/4 "2014-07-30T18:19:08Z")
Its on a newish experimental version. 3d1a8f4
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939/5 "2014-07-30T23:48:41Z")
Looks like a UI bug. I prefer the wider sidebar, so I wouldn’t have seen it; guessing something’s wrapping to the next line, however. Gonna ask this get moved to the Garage.
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### Author:  [@Turtlicious](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Turtlicious)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939/6 "2014-07-30T23:50:53Z")
It’s a graphical bug I see with a lot of roguelikes, it’s the text you’ve just gotten overwriting the text before it.
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-vertical-letters-to-the-left-of-the-sidebar/6939/7 "2014-07-31T00:03:50Z")
IIRC that happens when certain messages print and overflow into that space. Because it isn’t actually considered part of the window, it isn’t rewritten over when we do a window refresh, so it hangs around for a while. You can notice it pretty easily with debug messages as well if you have a large screen.