Fix warning for string conversion

force_encoding seems to handle things better than in prior testing on older versions

Limited testing shows east asian width characters are properly represented

admin-interface/ext/string.rb

@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ def center_utf8(length, padstr=' ')
   end
 
   def utf8
-    s = encode("UTF-16be", :invalid=>:replace, :replace=>"?").encode('UTF-8') #force_encoding('UTF-8')
-    s.strip # Don't strip; test that it can be stripped (else we fall back to encode())
-    s
+    # s = encode("UTF-16be", :invalid=>:replace, :replace=>"?").encode('UTF-8') #force_encoding('UTF-8')
+    # s.strip # Don't strip; test that it can be stripped (else we fall back to encode())
+    # s
+    force_encoding('UTF-8')
   rescue => e
     log("Failed to encode string as UTF-8: #{self.inspect}", level: :warn)
     encode('UTF-8', invalid: :replace, undef: :replace)

admin-interface/lib/server-query.rb

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 require 'socket'
 require_relative 'logger'
+require_relative '../ext/string'
 
 # https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Server_queries
 # https://apidock.com/ruby/Array/pack