GetName() and Strings that contain special chars

[borg83]

To the API developers:

If I call AIEngine.GetName(engine) for some engines (for example the large Airbus A380 of the av8 NewGRF) and use the returned String in an AILog function, then not the whole logging message will be printed. It seems to me like some engines use special chars in front of their names so that the text does not overlap with the large engine graphics. But I cannot find a way to remove those chars using Squirrel, so my question is:
Could you remove those chars as part of the API functions?

greetz, BørG