unacceptable character '' (0xFFFD)

My plugin has alot of linix users, with the recent update alot are complaing the config.yml isnt being created with them. It works fine on my windows os; with only a few complaining. Does anyone have any idea?

Code:

Console : 2013-07-04 13:28:22 [SEVERE] Cannot load configuration from stream
Console : org.bukkit.configuration.InvalidConfigurationException: unacceptable character '' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
Console : in "<string>", position 415
Console :      at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:55)
Console :      at org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration.load(FileConfiguration.java:138)
Console :      at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(YamlConfiguration.java:202)
Console :      at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.reloadConfig(JavaPlugin.java:121)
Console :      at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.getConfig(JavaPlugin.java:111)
Console :      at com.gmail.cbodels27.AdminChannel.AdminChannel.onEnable(AdminChannel.java:46)
Console :      at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:217)
Console :      at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:457)
Console :      at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:381)
Console :      at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R3.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:282)
Console :      at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R3.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:264)
Console :      at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.j(MinecraftServer.java:304)
Console :      at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.e(MinecraftServer.java:283)
Console :      at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:243)
Console :      at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:151)
Console :      at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:382)
Console :      at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:573)
Console : Caused by: unacceptable character '' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
Console : in "<string>", position 415
Console :      at org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.StreamReader.checkPrintable(StreamReader.java:70)
Console :      at org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.StreamReader.<init>(StreamReader.java:50)
Console :      at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.load(Yaml.java:399)
Console :      at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:53)
Console :      ... 16 more

 

I understood one thing from your post. Bukkit doesn't allow special characters, yet - I don't know how to fix it. Sorry about that

 

Not sure how to fix your problem, but I did find a similar thread https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/u...ffd-special-characters-are-not-allowed.68722/