[moralhazard]

I've been having this problem off and on for a really long time: while in game, if certain special characters are used in a person's name they just appear as a white box. I'll attach a pic.



The problem comes and goes, it seems to be affected by game updates but not every update. I use some mods, but I have this problem even on a fresh install (uninstall, delete all remaining folders, reboot, reinstall, reboot). I was able to fix it once upon a time ago by installing all the Windows language packs, but now I have them all installed and the boxes have resurfaced.

I can see the person's name fine if I shift+tab and view a list of players currently in-game, or navigate to their Steam profile. It's just within the actual game: scoreboard, targetid, chat, kill icons.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to fix this? It's generally not a big issue, just a pain to look at, but sometimes there'll be people whose whole name is these absurd characters so I don't know whose name to call out to.

Running Win7 64bit.

Thanks much.