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When the invocation of a module returns text with an asterisk as the first character, Scribunto prepends a newline to the text. This is obviously undesirable because it makes it impossible to do any further processing on the output of such an invocation.

To reproduce:

* Make a module with a function that returns "*test"
* Write in a wiki page: test{{#invoke:(your module)|(your function)}}

You'd expect this to return

test*test

but instead you get

test
*test

which the software then interprets as a bullet list.