I have an issue I've never seen and would like some insight. I ripped ifs_vkeyboard.lua from the PS2 versions's shell.lvl and placed it over the ifs_vkeyboard.lua script in the PSP's shell.lvl, in hopes of unlocking the ability to type spaces, lower/upper case, symbols, etc. The good part, is that the game actually allows me to press circle for symbol menu (not previously available) but all symbols look like A and not what they should really be.
Any help/tips will be appreciated.

It's very possible that the font actually has the character A in place of all the symbols. Maybe Savage Entertainment had no plans on using the symbols and "dummied" them out for whatever reason. Stranger things have happened. You might need to steal the PS2's fonts as well. That's the only thing that I can think of anyway.

Fonts are in the core.lvl, right?

Sure? I don't really remember to be honest.