So I was trying to read unicode from the config.yml but it's not working or translating properly, is there a way around this? Should I create a new yml file and setup the options differently or how would I do that? I know there's a pretty simple answer but I just couldn't find this, note I've googled this for a while and still cannot find the answer.
You have to remember that u icode is locale specific. This means each Unicode character looks differently depending on your charset encoding. What I believe you want (like most people want)is for utf8 Unicode symbols to work. This can be achieved by setting up your locale correctly on the server. There are a number of ways to do this, but it is platform dependent, so I won't go into specifics here. The Minecraft server runs with whatever locale the JVM is setup to use, and by default JVM uses the system's locale. You can alternatively override this using a JVM flag, but the correct option is to setup your system locale.
