Attempting to use § to create colored text in the create new world screen does not work. This was not the case for the old screen, nor for anywhere else that I am aware of. When selecting off the text, the section character and the character after it will still show up. For example, if I were to type "§6Hello!" it would show up as "Hello!" (also being orange/gold color) normally, but instead the "§6" part still persists.
None of the colors seem to work. Also, things such as bold and italic do not work as well (Strikethrough and Underline are affected at a game wide level by another bug, MCPE-41729).
Both the World Name and World Seed box are affected, and the '§' keys behave like normal once the world is created if in the name.
Steps to Reproduce:
Open the new create world menu
Type '§' followed by a number, and then a random string of text
Observe that the text is still white for some reason
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We're tracking this issue in MCPE-152246, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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