Is your operating system Windows 11? I ran into this issue in one of my tests on W11 (but it worked fine on another PC with the same OS). I've uploaded what I hope it is a fix, otherwise I'll keep looking into it.
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Yes, Im with Win 11. Maybe you should try with some SCREEN mode, might help. Here is link to screenshot.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13qCsBNROyLCG-9n62xTvO8zj8giGGtD2/view?usp=shari...
I'm not really sure, but I think it might be an issue with my C library. I could be "letting" some corrupt characters into the standard output stream and they somehow end up in the game. Does this still happen with the latest update? Otherwise I will keep investigating it but I won't be able to test it until around April 15th (on the system where the issue happens). Sorry about that. :(