This one's a real problem and isn't something I anticipated when deciding not to do automatic line breaks. We might have to implement that. Does anyone know how Earthbound handles it?

This should still be possible to handle with manual line breaks, I just haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. It's not the enemy names all by themselves that overflow, but them plus the text that leads up to them ("You engage the <enemy name>" and such).

It looks like EarthBound only ever attempts to linebreak at these points (will edit once I get a chance to test more thoroughly):

• Before an enemy name (this one may not be explicitly handled since the enemy name has a space before it)
• In between "the " and the enemy name
• After the enemy name

The result looks like:

- You encounter the
  Ramblin' Evil Mushroom.

I also noticed this happening with "Insane Cultist and its cohort," which might be harder to fix.

The cohorts part is handled in scripting rather than in code so we can just manually use a linebreak if we need to.

And... I should write this down somewhere before I forget. I don't think we've fixed it yet so that all the enemies have the correct intro text? EarthBound changed a few of those, like "The Starman Junior trapped you!" instead of whatever it is in Mother 2. A few overflows may be related to that.

The Mother 3 fan translation had the same problem, and ended up using automatic line breaks for battle text only: https://legendsoflocalization.com/mother-3/chapter1-1/#battle-square

This seems a bit heavy-handed, but it'd definitely fix the problem (and some other quirks of battle text)...

Current results of testing the encounter text with the updated entries...
test.log