Number of characters on license plates

It seems that with the 0.36 a certain unknown change has been brought, regarding the length of license plate text. In the license plate text bar, on the bottom of parts selector, you can now just type a maximum of 10 characters. Now, in certain cases (like with my Serbian license plate mod) it prevents you to type custom text. For the context, in that mod, there's two additional characters that allow the coat of arms symbol to appear with specific city code. Sure, the plates work totally fine, but it's annoying not being to able to type more than 10 characters. Even if I try to modify the text on plates, it literally won't allow me to, just reducing the text by one character, since it's over that 10 character limit.
Is there a way to retrieve this back to the pre 0.36 state, when you could type as many characters as the bar can have, without that limit?

 

Yup, also noticed this too. The last two updates completely broke the license plates for some reason and it's really taking my modding motivation as of lately...

 

This new limit is causing issues with my upcoming update for my license plate mod as well.
Though I "only" need 8 characters for the plate number itself, I rely on a higher character count for more advanced features, just like my fellow license plate modders above.

I hope this limit can be removed, or raised significantly.