[$250] Expense - Saving multiline description with mark down with no edit triggers system message

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Version Number: 1.4.81-1 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856 Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to workspace chat.
3. Submit an expense to workspace chat containing multiline description with mark down on each line. Example:
   • hello *
   • hellloo *
4. Go to transaction thread.
5. Wait for the expense to be completely created (sometimes the expense is created but not sent).
6. Click on the description.
7. Without changing the description, click Save.

Expected Result:

No system message for description edit will show up because no edit is made to the description.

Actual Result:

System message for description edit shows up when no edit is made to the description. When repeating Step 6 and 7, the transaction thread turns blank with the error "There was an error loading more messages."

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• [ ] Android: Native
• [x] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [ ] iOS: Native
• [x] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [x] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [x] MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

https://github.com/Expensify/App/assets/115492554/1231fdcd-b41c-44f1-8e9c-38c953b85a9d

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