How to parse cyrillic symbols from rcon?

FeTiD · **Author**

I send, for example, amx_mycommand "Новый игрок example строка here" via rcon in UTF-8.
On the server side (Linux HLDS cstrike 6153, amxx 1.82, meta 1.20) message in console appears normally as is. Storing it in file by read_args() creates UTF-8 text file with original comand correctly.
This is the part plugin's code:

Code:

public plugin_init() {
    register_plugin(PLUGIN, VERSION, AUTHOR)
    register_srvcmd("amx_mycommand",   "amx_mycommand",   0)

}
public amx_mycommand()
{
    new argument[192]
    static last_used_argument[192]
    read_args(argument, 191)
    if (equal(argument, last_used_argument)) {
        console_print(0, "Command repeated!")
        return PLUGIN_HANDLED_MAIN
    }
    copy(last_used_argument, strlen(argument), argument)
    new pos = contain(argument, "Новый")
    console_print(0, "pos= %d", pos)
    if (pos != -1) {
        //This part of code never executes cuz pos always -1
    }
    return PLUGIN_CONTINUE
        
}

I save .sma file in UTF-8 and compile.
As u see contain() can not work with cyrillic, so I added little construction to check ASCII number of each symbol below console_print(0, "pos= %d", pos) section:

Code:

new k
    while(argument[k] != 32) //parsing ASCII characters for the first word (until 'space' is found)
    {
        console_print(0, "Symbol %d is %c/%d", k, argument[k], argument[k])
        k++
    }

Latin symbols has correct ASCII codes, but here is the listing for string from example before:

Code:

L 01/29/2016 - 17:28:30: Rcon: "rcon 2004634538 "pass" amx_mycommand "Новый игрок example строка here"
pos= -1
Symbol 0 is *********/-48
Symbol 1 is *********/-99
Symbol 2 is *********/-48
Symbol 3 is *********/-66
Symbol 4 is *********/-48
Symbol 5 is *********/-78
Symbol 6 is *********/-47
Symbol 7 is *********/-117
Symbol 8 is *********/-48
Symbol 9 is *********/-71

As u see len of first word not equal with original one, and ascii codes all negative for cyrillic symbols and have sometimes the same values for different letters.
So i tried to add this test constriction:

Code:

new my_awesome_string_array_dunno_what_cp_is_it[] =
{ -48, -99, -48, -66, -48, -78, -47, -117, -48, -71 }
contain(argument, my_awesome_string_array_dunno_what_cp_is_it)

not work!

Any ideas?

btw ********* in listing is one symbol, but forum writes is like this