it would seem that certain unicode characters will not display properly on all OS's. In windows they seemed to not display correctly, but on linux they did. Perhaps it's an OS dependent issue.
Saving the transcript did not store the unicode characters properly, and it pulls them straight from the buffer. So theoretically it's failing somewhere between recieving the text and putting it into the buffer (or perhaps retrieving from the buffer).
Logged In: YES
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Ah, and that was posted by me. I seem to always forget that this machine doesn't log me in automatically. I tested this a bit with kmo, we'll do further testing later.
We used the string: 你好
which he tells me means 'hello', roughly. It displays as boxes on my screen, but the proper chinese characters on his. Saving the transcript produced an HTML file with the unicode characters replaced with "??".