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Output style reminders work for custom style names

You'll notice
Useful3 Signal2
Output Styles

Custom output styles now get the per-turn reminder that built-in styles always got.

What

The per-turn reminder about your active output style used to look the name up in a fixed table, so an unfamiliar style produced no reminder at all. It now formats whatever name it is given, and only drops the reminder if the name is empty, not a string, or longer than 256 characters, which is logged as an error.

Evidence

Output style name exceeds

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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