diff --git a/GlitchyEngine/src/Renderer/Text/FontRenderer.bf b/GlitchyEngine/src/Renderer/Text/FontRenderer.bf
index 0725cde..8bd2934 100644
--- a/GlitchyEngine/src/Renderer/Text/FontRenderer.bf
+++ b/GlitchyEngine/src/Renderer/Text/FontRenderer.bf
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ namespace GlitchyEngine.Renderer.Text
 
 			List<Texture2D> atlasses = scope .();
 
-			// freetype identifies glyphs using utf32 (which makes sense), so we enumerate the text as char32
-			for(char32 char in String.UTF8Enumerator(text, 0, text.Length))
+			// enumerate through the unicode codepoints
+			for(char32 char in text.DecodedChars)
 			{
 				if(char == '\n')
 				{
diff --git a/Sandbox/BeefProj.toml b/Sandbox/BeefProj.toml
index 004aa4a..44941ce 100644
--- a/Sandbox/BeefProj.toml
+++ b/Sandbox/BeefProj.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Dependencies = {GlitchyEngine = "*", corlib = "*", LodePng = "*"}
 Name = "Sandbox"
 TargetType = "BeefGUIApplication"
 StartupObject = "GlitchyEngine.Program"
-ProcessorMacros = ["!SANDBOX_2D"]
+ProcessorMacros = ["SANDBOX_2D"]
 
 [Configs.Debug.Win64]
 CLibType = "DynamicDebug"
diff --git a/Sandbox/src/SandboxApp2D.bf b/Sandbox/src/SandboxApp2D.bf
index ec35adc..7e7468b 100644
--- a/Sandbox/src/SandboxApp2D.bf
+++ b/Sandbox/src/SandboxApp2D.bf
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ namespace Sandbox
 
 		Font fonty ~ _.ReleaseRef();
 
-		VertexLayout layout ~ delete _;
+		VertexLayout layout ~ _?.ReleaseRef();
 
 		GeometryBinding quadBinding ~ _?.ReleaseRef();
 
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ namespace Sandbox
 
 			Renderer2D.End();
 			*/
+			
 			_alphaBlendState.Bind();
 			Renderer2D.Begin(.FrontToBack, .(_context.SwapChain.Width, _context.SwapChain.Height));
 
diff --git a/Sandbox/test.txt b/Sandbox/test.txt
index 3744c27..83fa6af 100644
--- a/Sandbox/test.txt
+++ b/Sandbox/test.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ Mir geht es gut, danke der Nachfrage. Wie geht es dir?
 順調に進んでいますし、何よりもエンジンがやっと文字を表示できるようになりました。
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+🤦🏿‍♀️