Strange item colour saving

I inserted a picture with the poswt. As you can see, my item has weird "A"s that ruin the lore of the item. Is there a way to prevent such things from happening?

 

I think they're pretty cool

Are you adding this lore through Essentials kits? Regardless of where, would you mind posting the config/code for it?

 

@oceantheskatr Its just a normal ChatColor.[color] + [String] context. After a few restarts, that happens. I'm posting this because, that happens to interfere with features of my plugin.

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Please paste your code

 

@oceantheskatr

Code:

ItemStack item = new ItemStack(Material.STONE);
ItemMeta meta = item.getItemMeta();
ArrayList<String> lore = new ArrayList<String>();
lore.add(ChatColor.RED + "This is a lore");
meta.setLore(lore);

This is an example of how I do it. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with my code. Anything with colours in the item's text will have the strange "A"s after a few server reboots.

 

Strange, I set mine the same way. Which Java version & server version are you using?

 

@oceantheskatr spigot 1.8.3 java 8 i think. Its the latest java

 

I use that too, not sure what it could be.

@I Al Istannen any idea what it may be?

 

@Hex_27 Could you loop through all chars in the lore (String.toCharArray)? And post what you get? I had the same error with a little snippet that was getting the server MOTD. The Input was UTF-8. In UTF-8 a char has 3 Byte, but it read every byte as an char. This way chars appeared, where they should not have been.

 

@I Al Istannen
But that would require creating another plugin