Non-Latin characters in status messages

Hi everyone.

Spark seems to have good Unicode support, esp. in the messages themselves, but I’‘ve found that whenever I attempt to change my status message to something that includes non-Latin characters (specifically Russian and Arabic characters), they show up as question marks. When typing them in to the status message, they show up fine, but when the message is saved, they’'re converted to ???. This is what I see and what all the other users see. Is there something I can do to get around this?

Thanks,

Ben