diff --git a/Dalamud/Game/Chat/SeStringHandling/Payloads/ItemPayload.cs b/Dalamud/Game/Chat/SeStringHandling/Payloads/ItemPayload.cs
index 78e82291a..d8bad2c0b 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Game/Chat/SeStringHandling/Payloads/ItemPayload.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Game/Chat/SeStringHandling/Payloads/ItemPayload.cs
@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Chat.SeStringHandling.Payloads
             // unk
             bytes.AddRange(new byte[] { 0x02, 0x01, END_BYTE });
 
-
-
             return bytes.ToArray();
         }
 
diff --git a/Dalamud/Game/Chat/SeStringHandling/Payloads/TextPayload.cs b/Dalamud/Game/Chat/SeStringHandling/Payloads/TextPayload.cs
index 62ab70a40..161cd82db 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Game/Chat/SeStringHandling/Payloads/TextPayload.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Game/Chat/SeStringHandling/Payloads/TextPayload.cs
@@ -11,7 +11,24 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Chat.SeStringHandling.Payloads
     {
         public override PayloadType Type => PayloadType.RawText;
 
-        public string Text { get; set; }
+        private string textConverted = null;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The Text of this text payload as an UTF-8 converted string.
+        /// Don't rely on this for accurate representation of SE payload data, please check RawData instead.
+        /// </summary>
+        public string Text {
+            get { return this.textConverted ??= Encoding.UTF8.GetString(RawData); }
+            set {
+                this.textConverted = value;
+                RawData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value);
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The raw unconverted data of this text payload.
+        /// </summary>
+        public byte[] RawData { get; set; }
 
         public TextPayload() { }
 
diff --git a/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/ChatGui.cs b/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/ChatGui.cs
index 6ef458cb9..c9eb128c9 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/ChatGui.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/ChatGui.cs
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Internal.Gui {
                     Log.Verbose("SeString was edited, taking precedence over StdString edit.");
                     message.RawData = newEdited;
                 }
+                Log.Debug($"\nOLD: {BitConverter.ToString(originalMessageData)}\nNEW: {BitConverter.ToString(newEdited)}");
 
                 var messagePtr = pMessage;
                 OwnedStdString allocatedString = null;