diff --git a/source/src/clientgame.cpp b/source/src/clientgame.cpp
index d1ec43ad..bb66f372 100644
--- a/source/src/clientgame.cpp
+++ b/source/src/clientgame.cpp
@@ -85,8 +85,7 @@ const char *highlight(const char *text)
     static char result[MAXTRANS + 10];
     const char *marker = getalias("HIGHLIGHT"), *sep = " ,;:!\"'";
     if(!marker || !strstr(text, player1->name)) return text;
-    filterrichtext(result, marker);
-    defformatstring(subst)("\fs%s%s\fr", result, player1->name);
+    defformatstring(subst)("\fs%s%s\fr", marker, player1->name);
     char *temp = newstring(text);
     char *s = strtok(temp, sep), *l = temp, *c, *r = result;
     result[0] = '\0';
diff --git a/source/src/serverbrowser.cpp b/source/src/serverbrowser.cpp
index 21755c53..8b65fc2f 100644
--- a/source/src/serverbrowser.cpp
+++ b/source/src/serverbrowser.cpp
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ void refreshservers(void *menu, bool init)
                 else
                 {
                     if(!hidefavicons && !showweights && showfavtag && si.favcat > -1) favimage = getalias(favcatargname(favcats[si.favcat], FC_IMAGE));
-                    filterrichtext(text, si.favcat > -1 && !favimage ? favcattags[si.favcat] : "");
+                    copystring(text, si.favcat > -1 && !favimage ? favcattags[si.favcat] : "");
                     if(showweights) concatformatstring(text, "(%d)", si.weight);
                     formatstring(si.full)(showfavtag ? (favimage ? "\t" : "\fs%s\fr\t") : "", text);
                     concatformatstring(si.full, "\fs\f%c%s\t\fs\f%c%d/%d\fr\t\a%c  ", basecolor, colorping(si.ping), plnumcolor, si.numplayers, si.maxclients, '0' + si.uplinkqual);