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Karl Reti of Manchester has pointed out an annoying bug in the displaying of Symbolic fields between parts of a multipart key. This specifically seems to affect XLATEs and is simply that if the item being XLATED to is not there, regardless of whether an "X" is specified or not, the XLATE behaves as though a "C" were specified and the ID shows up on the screen where the XLATE should be. This also affects screens that are made up purely of symbolics (i.e. a key and a screen of symbolics) as Nick Edwards of Twickenham complained.

As both gentlemen have found out, the solution to this bug is simply to append a space to your XLATE e.g.