From 57a5188196172e235185e683a9d6663356fe561d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Eaton <MarkEEaton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:56:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix last line displaying newline character

---
 scripts/language_stats.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/language_stats.py b/scripts/language_stats.py
index ec6efd0..6c4b0f8 100644
--- a/scripts/language_stats.py
+++ b/scripts/language_stats.py
@@ -181,9 +181,10 @@ def generate_markdown(totals: dict[str, int]) -> str:
     for lang, nbytes in pairs:
         pct = nbytes * 100 / total_bytes
         bar = "█" * int(pct / 2)  # up to 50 chars
-        lines.append(f"{bar} {lang}{pct:5.1f}%\\")
+        lines.append(f"{bar} {lang}{pct:5.1f}%")
 
-    return "\n".join(lines)
+    # Join with backslash + newline for markdown line breaks (except after last line)
+    return "\\\n".join(lines)
 
 
 def fetch_readme(session: requests.Session) -> tuple[str, str]: