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From: Steve Larson <9larsons@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:45:27 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=90=9B=20Fixed=20custom=20excerpts=20some?=
 =?UTF-8?q?times=20being=20cut=20off=20(#19560)?=
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refs TryGhost/Ghost#19559
- custom excerpts are truncated based on character length
- escaped characters added extra length but we didn't account for this,
resulting in poor truncation of excerpts
---
 ghost/core/core/frontend/helpers/excerpt.js | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ghost/core/core/frontend/helpers/excerpt.js b/ghost/core/core/frontend/helpers/excerpt.js
index 6b574a4865..27a037d19f 100644
--- a/ghost/core/core/frontend/helpers/excerpt.js
+++ b/ghost/core/core/frontend/helpers/excerpt.js
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ module.exports = function excerpt(options) {
     } else {
         excerptText = '';
     }
-    
+
     excerptText = _.escape(excerptText);
 
     truncateOptions = _.reduce(truncateOptions, (_truncateOptions, value, key) => {
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ module.exports = function excerpt(options) {
         return _truncateOptions;
     }, {});
 
+    // For custom excerpts, make sure we truncate them only based on length
     if (!_.isEmpty(this.custom_excerpt)) {
-        truncateOptions.characters = this.custom_excerpt.length;
+        truncateOptions.characters = excerptText.length; // length is expanded by use of escaped characters
         if (truncateOptions.words) {
             delete truncateOptions.words;
         }