diff --git a/game/assets/game_text.gp b/game/assets/game_text.gp
index 30511466b0..8b8c237908 100644
--- a/game/assets/game_text.gp
+++ b/game/assets/game_text.gp
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
 ;; you can find the game-text-version parsing in .cpp and an enum in goal-lib.gc
 
 (text
-  (jak1-v1 "assets/game_text.txt") ;; this is the decompiler-generated file!
+  ;; NOTE : we compile using the fixed v2 encoding because it's what we use.
+  (jak1-v2 "assets/game_text.txt") ;; this is the decompiler-generated file!
   ;; add custom files down here
-  (jak1-v1 "game/assets/jak1/text/game_text_en.gs")
-  (jak1-v1 "game/assets/jak1/text/game_text_ja.gs")
+  (jak1-v2 "game/assets/jak1/text/game_text_en.gs")
+  (jak1-v2 "game/assets/jak1/text/game_text_ja.gs")
   )
 
 
diff --git a/goal_src/engine/ui/text.gc b/goal_src/engine/ui/text.gc
index 574f9b7f82..40d8da302e 100644
--- a/goal_src/engine/ui/text.gc
+++ b/goal_src/engine/ui/text.gc
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@
                )
            )
           (else
-            (if (= sv-176 95)
+            (if (= sv-176 3)
                 (set! sv-176 32)
                 )
             (set! (-> *game-text-word* data sv-184) (the-as uint sv-176))