diff --git a/G-Earth/src/main/java/gearth/protocol/HPacket.java b/G-Earth/src/main/java/gearth/protocol/HPacket.java
index c1cfb94..4b2bf1c 100644
--- a/G-Earth/src/main/java/gearth/protocol/HPacket.java
+++ b/G-Earth/src/main/java/gearth/protocol/HPacket.java
@@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ public class HPacket implements StringifyAble {
         return this;
     }
     public HPacket appendString(String s) {
+        s = new String(s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8), StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
         return appendString(s, StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
     }