Ticket #8080: verb-text-fix.diff

scummvm/scumm/string.cpp

@@ -560 +560 @@
                 charset._left -= charset.getStringWidth(a, buf, 0) >> 1;
         }
 
-        // Verb text should never time out.
-        if (a == 4)
+        // In Full Throttle (and other games?), verb text should always mask
+        // and never time out. We can't do it blindly for all games, because
+        // it causes problem with the FOA intro.
+
+        if (_gameId == GID_FT && a == 4)
                 _talkDelay = -1;
+        else
+                charset._ignoreCharsetMask = 1;
 
         if (!buf[0]) {
                 buf[0] = ' ';