When message sent to bot has multiple lines, each line beginning with a number, Emulator changes the number

[mindmodel]

Version 4.3.0.

JSON copied directly from Emulator:

"text": "0) [All Cuisines: Highest Ratings]\n\r\n1) American (New)\r\n2) American (Traditional)\r\n3) Asian Fusion\r\n4) Bakeries\r\n5) Barbeque\r\n6) Bars\r\n7) Beer Bar\r\n8) Brazilian\r\n9) Breakfast & Brunch\r\n10) Breweries\r\n11) Buffets\r\n12) Burgers\r\n13) Caribbean\r\n14) Chinese\r\n15) Cocktail Bars\r\n16) Coffee & Tea\r\n17) Coffee Roasteries\r\n18) Colombian\r\n19) Comfort Food\r\n20) Delis\r\n21) Desserts\r\n22) Dim Sum\r\n23) Diners\r\n24) Fast Food\r\n25) Fondue\r\n26) Food Trucks\r\n27) French\r\n28) Gluten-Free\r\n29) Greek\r\n30) Halal\r\n31) Hot Dogs\r\n32) Indian\r\n33) Italian\r\n34) Japanese\r\n35) Juice Bars & Smoothies\r\n36) Latin American\r\n37) Mediterranean\r\n38) Mexican\r\n39) Middle Eastern\r\n40) Pizza\r\n41) Salad\r\n42) Sandwiches\r\n43) Seafood\r\n44) Soup\r\n45) Sports Bars\r\n46) Steakhouses\r\n47) Sushi Bars\r\n48) Szechuan\r\n49) Vegan\r\n50) Vegetarian\r\n51) Vietnamese\r\n",

The "\r\n" are necessary to produce one item per line in SMS sent by Twilio to iPhone.

Message displays correctly as text message received by phone, one line for each item, numbers starting at zero.

The Emulator renumbers the items, starting at one.

See attached screen shot.

[cwhitten]

@compulim can you comment to any special webchat behavior causing this?

[cwhitten]

Hello @mindmodel - this is by design of the activity renderer as it interprets the text as markdown. Transferring to the Web Chat project.

[cwhitten]

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[corinagum]

Feel free to reopen if this issue is persisting. Our recommendation is to use plain text instead of markdown for this scenario.

[mindmodel]

This isn't markdown. As stated in the original question, it's just text with newlines. The text displays correctly on iPhone. The emulator, for some reason, changes the numbers contained in the text to different numbers. Why does the emulator interpret this text as markdown? Does it make sense to change the bot software, which produces correct results on the target device (iPhone) to work around behavior of the emulator?

[corinagum]

By default, the activity is processed as markdown in Web Chat. Based off what I can see from the screencap above, textFormat is not declared. This is legacy behavior from Web Chat v3.

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/blob/master/packages/component/src/Utils/textFormatToContentType.js v3: https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/blob/v3/src/FormattedText.tsx#L15

You're not required to change the bot software, but this is the cause of the behavior.

[mindmodel]

I'll check it out. Thanks!