diff -r b8b7ef99a084 -r 563a34cd8398 QTfrontend/game.cpp
--- a/QTfrontend/game.cpp	Mon Nov 25 10:12:18 2013 +0100
+++ b/QTfrontend/game.cpp	Mon Nov 25 22:09:42 2013 +0100
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@
 
 void HWGame::sendCampaignVar(const QByteArray &varToSend)
 {
-    QString varToFind(varToSend);
+    QString varToFind = QString::fromUtf8(varToSend);
     QSettings teamfile(QString("physfs://Teams/%1.hwt").arg(campaignTeam), QSettings::IniFormat, 0);
     teamfile.setIniCodec("UTF-8");
     QString varValue = teamfile.value("Campaign " + campaign + "/" + varToFind, "").toString();