This happened to me, too. Only 1.8.x Versions contain this bug; I tested it in vanilla MC 1.7 and 1.8. I tried to write book + quill with coloured letters by editing each page with "ยง4" at the beginning. But after signing the book only the first line was coloured in red and not (as expected) the whole page.
This happens also with formatted text written (and correctly displayed in 1.7) in 1.7! Changing a singleplayer world from 1.7 to 1.8 breaks the signed books.
Nelson Schell
This happened to me, too. Only 1.8.x Versions contain this bug; I tested it in vanilla MC 1.7 and 1.8.
I tried to write book + quill with coloured letters by editing each page with "ยง4" at the beginning. But after signing the book only the first line was coloured in red and not (as expected) the whole page.
This happens also with formatted text written (and correctly displayed in 1.7) in 1.7! Changing a singleplayer world from 1.7 to 1.8 breaks the signed books.
Greets from Germany