Unicode in Clue Window Corrupts text

I have put some unicode into the "annotation" attribute of a "umenu" object, and the letter at beginning of words gets incorrectly replaced with a space. First picture shows the unicode text entry in the "annotation" attribute -- all good so far.

But then when hovering over that object where clue window comes up, the CLUE window corrupts the output:

The first unicode character appears, nice, but then every word that follows, it's first letter is replaced with a "space". The next two unicode character, they have gone poof up in smoke and are replaced by a "space".

Any one have a work around for this? Hmm, apart from the trivial solution, don't use those funny slanted up arrows etc.

I am using Max release 8.6.5 .

Thanks in advance.

Norman.