From e85e153d9c12b2d68bc3b5005a015cc0c4392305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kashike <kashike@vq.lc>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:28:43 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Don't nest if we don't need to when cerealising text
 components


diff --git a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/PacketPlayOutChat.java b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/PacketPlayOutChat.java
index fa4eab5b0b..0ab611564e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/PacketPlayOutChat.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/PacketPlayOutChat.java
@@ -29,7 +29,14 @@ public class PacketPlayOutChat implements Packet<PacketListenerPlayOut> {
     public void b(PacketDataSerializer packetdataserializer) throws IOException {
         // Spigot start
         if (components != null) {
-            packetdataserializer.a(net.md_5.bungee.chat.ComponentSerializer.toString(components));
+            //packetdataserializer.a(net.md_5.bungee.chat.ComponentSerializer.toString(components)); // Paper - comment, replaced with below
+            // Paper start - don't nest if we don't need to so that we can preserve formatting
+            if (this.components.length == 1) {
+                packetdataserializer.a(net.md_5.bungee.chat.ComponentSerializer.toString(this.components[0]));
+            } else {
+                packetdataserializer.a(net.md_5.bungee.chat.ComponentSerializer.toString(this.components));
+            }
+            // Paper end
         } else {
             packetdataserializer.a(this.a);
         }
-- 
2.22.0