diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 8681889f3..52d43edde 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ The following submitted code, packages or analysis, and deserve special thanks:
   Lynoure Braakman
   Sebastien Badia
   Ran Benita
+  Vladimir
 
 Thanks to the following, who submitted detailed bug reports and excellent
 suggestions:
@@ -296,3 +297,6 @@ suggestions:
   Ellington Santos
   george js
   E. Manuel Cerr'on Angeles
+  Andrew
+  bjonnh
+  OKOMper
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ca06056bd..323e99b65 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
           (thanks to Paul Beckingham)
 - TW-1772 Implementation of circular dependency detection is
           inefficient (thanks to Michael Meier).
+- TW-1778 Unicode strings are truncated in task description
+          (thanks to Andrew, bjonnh, OKOMPer, Vladimir).
 - TW-1788 Closing a reopened task does not update the end time
           (thanks to Ralph Bean).
 - TW-1791 taskrc(5) manpage: spurious "pri." in rule.precedence.color
diff --git a/src/text.cpp b/src/text.cpp
index f5e3496be..bc8353f73 100644
--- a/src/text.cpp
+++ b/src/text.cpp
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ bool extractLine (
     // Premature EOL.
     if (character == '\n')
     {
-      line = text.substr (offset, line_length);
+      line = text.substr (offset, prior_cursor - offset);
       offset = cursor;
       return true;
     }