sending 'é' by osc gives me bogus String

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hello !
I try to send users names to one computer to another via osc in maxmsp.
for instance user: étienne gives BOGUS STRING !!!
how could I format the string to retrieve étienne wrote correctly ?
thanks
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I'm on mac.

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How about this?

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You don't need the fromsymbol/tosymbol thing. If you don't need full OSC packets, the updsend/updreceive works fine.

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thanks !
still don't really understand why it doesn't work with osc...I guess I don't know osc so much