I have figured out the problem
It's to do with the british version of windows 10 and language input. i asked other people and it seemed only the americans were seeing it correctly so I had a hunch. it's a bug with the latest version of avast or something, so if you can try to fix this bug i'd appreciate it! i changed my language from english (united kingdom) to just "english" in the avast other langauges pack and it sorted itself. please let people be known about this!