I have unrecognized special characters in the display and broken lines since the update.

Several plugins are involved.
The language files not changed and yet it no longer works properly.

Yup having the same issue any ideas how to fix this ?

Having same issue here

What "special characters" do you mean?

html symbols ex. ★

That's right, and replaced any old (now unsupported) colornames in the defaults with their associated hex values.

Merged post

Do you know how to repair ?

i had try all encoding standards like for example here: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2605/index.htm and still only thing i see is '!' :( but in my rcon app is ok ;) 

How to use HTML Entity (hex)?
<code=&#x2> </code> ????

what i see only C/C++/Java source code worked like: \u2605 (in rcon, on chat no)

In all .json, special characters like ★ are replaced by  " ! ".

I can't find a way to correct that.
And you?

nope, for now nothing works :(

The Rust client no longer allows/handles these, so not possible that I am aware of.

Jeez why do they even mess with that, like seriously they need to focus more on the performance instead of removing lil stuff like that lol. sad

I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but the change was a side effect of a performance change.

hopefully they re-add it, thanks wulf for the fast response. and also i think the performance got worse. my players are telling me that they use to run fantastic with 100-110 fps, now they are running 60 fps all the time