Fixing text and character issues with roblox utf8

If you've ever tried to display a player's name and ended up with weird blocks, question marks, or garbled symbols, you probably need to start using roblox utf8 functions in your scripts. It's one of those things that most of us ignore when we first start scripting in Luau because, honestly, if you're just writing "Hello World," everything works fine. But the moment you start dealing with a global audience—which is basically every game on Roblox—the standard string library starts to fall apart. ...

February 8, 2026 · 7 min · Laansoo Taffy