TextMesh Pro Strange goings-on

I'm using 2.1.4 on Unity 2019.4.16.

I'm not able to post my Russian text as the forum doesn't like it.





I have a stretched Text element with Font Size set to 100. Alignment is horizontally left and vertically centre. The Font Asset is the default LiberationSans SDF.

The Russian text is being broken up into multiple lines.



If I select Auto Size the font size becomes the minimum of 18.




If I disable Auto Size and align centrally horizontally I lose characters.



Why are these things happening?

 

Also having an issue where characters are being drawn over each other.





This comes out as 2 lines when I paste it somewhere. I think the problem is to do with the invisible character after 6 characters.

 

Can you copy / paste the text in a .txt file and then post that file? I suspect perhaps some hidden control characters in the text.