sceneObject problems

While making my game, I encountered a rather weird problem. I have a few textObjects on screen, they basically there so the player knows whats going on when. But 1 major problem comes up, when I change a textObjects text to the players opponents name (example) it gives me a whole bunch of weird symbols, there is no errors in the console, my code is below:

function StartupGame()
{
	CreatePlayers();
	SetupBoard();
}

function CreatePlayers()
{
	$player1 = new t2dSceneObject()
	{
		class = "player";
		opponent = $player2;
		name = "Player";
		rolls = 5;
		movement = 14;
		powerups = 2;
	};
	
	$player2 = new t2dSceneObject()
	{
		class = "computer";
		opponent = $player1;
		name = "Computer";
		rolls = 0;
		movement = 0;
		powerups = 0;
	};
}

function SetupBoard()
{
	Turn.text = $player1.opponent.name;
}

That isn't the exact code but it gives the same result, the textObject's name is Turn and the player1's opponent's name comes out with a lot of weird symbols instead of Computer, any help would be appreciated.

Please don't mention to put $player2.name instead of $player1.opponent.name because the above code is just an example, I have some code where I can't put $player2.name.