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UTF-8 encoding issue in mission chat

Jan 21, 2026 elteclas link
In the mission/tutorial chat, Spanish texts lose accented characters and the letter ñ (á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ), while the normal chat displays correctly. The issue appears to be limited to mission/localization texts and is reproducible when using the Spanish language.
Jan 21, 2026 incarnate link
It would be helpful to know:

- What platform and device type you're using.
- What mission case would show an example of what you're describing.

Thanks for the report!
Jan 23, 2026 elteclas link
Windows 11 Spanish Language

https://files.fm/u/pd6ups5vm9
Fri 11:37AM arzyayix link
In the mission "Path to the Overseer" and many others, I would say that it didn't happen before, but I don't know for sure.
Fri 04:09PM elteclas link
It's happening to me right now
Fri 07:54PM incarnate link
Thank you for the clarification. We have identified the problem, and we're shipping a patch tonight.

This was a major problem in our mission localization system, and we're amazed that it didn't show up in any of our testing. It not ideal Spanish users, but it was far worse for Russian and other non-Latin languages.

In any event, this should be fixed soon. Thanks again.
Fri 08:42PM raybondo link
The client patch has been released.