Alright, I havent got the save anymore, but ill try and go into a bit more detail.
Im running english and on windows 7.
So I go into a library and there are 4 books on the shelf, I examine it and it get something like this:
a book a
b book b
c book c
d book d
Say book d is the one causing the problem (sewing for designers, just dont want to type it out over and over). I can scroll through a, b and c just like normal, pick them up etc. As soon as I scroll over book d though, I get the mentioned string error and it drops me back onto my normal wandering about screen.
Ok, so fuck that book then and keep adventuring. I find another copy of book d and pick it up no worries, no debug message, just like normal.
Put it in my shopping cart with piles of other assorted junk and keep rolling. A few days later I want to pull some stuff out of my cart. As I scroll through the list when the cursor goes over book d I get the debug again and am dumped out to walking about mode. Pageup/pagedown to jump entire screens will get me past it, it is only when the cursor is actually on book d I have the debug.
So ok, remove most of the stuff in the cart and dump it, then pickup everything in the cart with the ‘select all’ thing (, by memory). Pick it up no worries. Read it no worries, get my tailoring up to 6 no worries, all good, dump it in the cargospace with all the other books on my car.
Later I want to grab something out of that cargo space. Cant even open up its inventory, I get the debug message as soon as I try.
Play a little more, get bored and die in a fire.
Havent seen the issue in any other experimental since.