I have many fonts that include alternate characters that I substitute using this method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVsufJjons
I never had any trouble in X7. Since upgrading to X8 many of my fonts will not allow access to the alternates anymore and remain visually cut-off unless I convert them to curves. Of course after this conversion, alternates are no longer available because the shapes are no longer text.
Example:
I looked at the screen shot and the font says Anthem but the display does not look like any Anthem font I can find. Can you share the font for testing?