Number of characters on license plates

It seems that with the 0.36 a certain unknown change has been brought, regarding the length of license plate text. In the license plate text bar, on the bottom of parts selector, you can now just type a maximum of 10 characters. Now, in certain cases (like with my Serbian license plate mod) it prevents you to type custom text. For the context, in that mod, there's two additional characters that allow the coat of arms symbol to appear with specific city code. Sure, the plates work totally fine, but it's annoying not being to able to type more than 10 characters. Even if I try to modify the text on plates, it literally won't allow me to, just reducing the text by one character, since it's over that 10 character limit.
Is there a way to retrieve this back to the pre 0.36 state, when you could type as many characters as the bar can have, without that limit?

 

Yup, also noticed this too. The last two updates completely broke the license plates for some reason and it's really taking my modding motivation as of lately...

 

This new limit is causing issues with my upcoming update for my license plate mod as well.
Though I "only" need 8 characters for the plate number itself, I rely on a higher character count for more advanced features, just like my fellow license plate modders above.

I hope this limit can be removed, or raised significantly.

 

I've also noticed this change today and it's very annoying. I'm trying to find a decent workaround for that, but still haven't found it.
However, by using a console (activated with tilde (~) key), it's possible to set the text on license plate that's longer than 10 characters, for example on German temporary/export plates from my mod "Central Europe Plates", where you can add additional characters to specify the date of expiration of a plate.

You need to select "GE - Lua" and then type this function (license plate number goes between quotation marks):
core_vehicles.setPlateText("MH:045819|110725")

Confirm with "Enter" key. The license plate number changes without a problem.

Other workaround: select "CEF/UI - JS" (while in parts selection menu) and type:
document.getElementsByTagName("input")[1].maxLength = 20
Confirm with "Enter" key. Now, it's possible to type more characters in the "License plate" field (but it doesn't work after you close the menu).

I've also found the location, where possibly the character limit might be defined: "ui\ui-vue\src\modules\vehicleConfig\components\Parts.vue", line 214

I also agree with what was said before - this character limit needs to be increased (for example to 20), or completely dropped (reverted to state as of version 0.35).

 

Very useful, thanks for sharing.

 

I recently got back into creating license plates for this wonderful game, and although this limit has not affected the mod I'm doing right now, I still think this limit makes absolutely no sense. It should either be removed or increased.