Unicode player names in RCON

Hey Guys,

I have a script in php that parses the chat log and then sends messages using RCON, for some reason I can't seem to get player names that have unicode letters to display properly in chat, is there something I need to do first to the players name when sending the data to RCON so that it doesn't mess up the players name?

An example of a player name that I send to RCON would be Ĝ҉ Ǻ҉ Ӎ҉ Ế҉ Ʀ BMX, this will show all garbeled for the in-game chat. I'm curious if I need to do some sort of special encoding or decoding before sending it to rcon.

Cheers

 

I'm just using a php class I found online (Basic CS:S Rcon class by Freman: https://fremnet.net/article/199/source-rcon-class) and it works with RUST, I'm wondering if there is something I need to do with it to make it work properly. I couldn't find any decent php rcon classes tailored specifically to rust that worked.