Alan: I did migrate the workspace, and I believe the alt codes are embedded in the fonts so it isn't a setting that I can change as far as I know.
Pat: I am running the same fonts so my thought is that VW somehow changed the alt code mapping for the fonts which admittedly doesn't make much sense because it would likely be a lot of work to change those.
But as of right now alt8539, 8540, 8541, 8542 result in [, \, ], ^ respectively rather than ⅛, ⅜, ⅝, ⅞. I was hoping someone that knows more about font character mapping could help me with a fix, or VW would put it back to how it was.