Still seeing odd character translations in IRC

[17:30] I don’t remember my password for vert 😞

root@bbs:/var/log/sbbs# echo "[17:30] <martylake> I don’t remember my password for vert :("|hexdump -C
00000000  5b 31 37 3a 33 30 5d 20  3c 6d 61 72 74 79 6c 61  |[17:30] <martyla|
00000010  6b 65 3e 20 49 20 64 6f  6e e2 80 99 74 20 72 65  |ke> I don...t re|
00000020  6d 65 6d 62 65 72 20 6d  79 20 70 61 73 73 77 6f  |member my passwo|
00000030  72 64 20 66 6f 72 20 76  65 72 74 20 3a 28 0a     |rd for vert :(.|