Weird/Bad Encoding on Beacon name

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This beacon (Janus II, world ID = 669, (1662N, -1634E, A209)) has some weird encoding going on. In game, the beacon name appears to be chorió where ó is Latin Small Letter O with Acute, Unicode Number: U+00F3, HTML-entity: ó Letters in Block Latin-1 Supplement 📖 Symbol Meaning ✂ Copy & 📋 Paste (◕‿◕) SYMBL.

From the Leaderboard in game, it gives a completely different value. Similarly, the /worldpoll endpoint also seems to return similar bad encoding:

b'{"beacons":3,"displayName":"Janus II","eol":1603205028,"leaderboard":[{"mayor":{"id":109686,"name":"Lunai","type":1},"name":"Chori\\u9841\\udd2fu Oranou","prestige":61737},{"mayor":{"id":127791,"name":"Ellyphant","type":1},"name":"Welcome Pile of Ruins","prestige":58793}],"owner":false,"plots":524,"prestige":120540,"resources":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,7117467,11631810,1021457,436862,0,14719492,3413110,0,1573163,2156077,0,2121193,983372,0,0,0,0,0,5014,10467,813,12710,0,2418,57474,31592,18993,0,0,4580,5606,0,0,4832,0,0,5161,5281,4978,7047,5871,1335,7022,46019,24633,12609,0,0,0,0,0],"signed":"l(ITBAhRf<-*0$u>xQ1!miA6~vUAVXZ>#R^yBIma^gNv*3/.FoIeV.KYBRA~1_8P^nd*!*<DTFoDe^(~|n[uY[dNRo*>V.K9OD#Ndf03O2}00*hE/<QyyI|SrcvT8/iDr[Lnr}5|Y.$,)^>DP|[X7&}E_SQu2ip-","tt":16909057,"worldSize":288}\n'

In game:

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Settlements tab:

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Worlds:

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LOL THAT’S MY BEACON! it’s supposed to be greek for Sky village but the leaderboard says it all wrong

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The game GUI renderer doesn’t support full Unicode. It currently supports ISO 8859-1 with a few little additions.

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I can understand that, but it looks like a completely different character based on the raw binary response. Compass texts from the first screenshot appears to be rendering F3, which is Latin1 supplement and I believe should be render able by a ISO 8859-1 render since it is still only a singe byte, but the binary from the response says it is 4 bytes, not 1. Is there a different higher 4 byte Unicode character I am just missing?