Telegram curl text "%device" error "Bad Request: text must be encoded in UTF-8"

Question

We're using Telegram notifications to get status of our Virtual Machines and other services using PRTG Monitoring Tool.

Problem

Notificacions are not working via CURL and POST

Configuration

curl -X POST https://api.telegram.org/<BOT_ID>/sendMessage -d 'chat_id=<CHAT_ID>&parse_mode=Markdown&text=%lastmessage %linksensor %since %group %device'

Error

{"ok":false,"error_code":400,"description":"Bad Request: text must be encoded in UTF-8"}

Testing

Playing with the configuration we noticed that Removing "%device" will make it work.

Question

It is a problem with the value "%device" in the Telegram Api via CURL or POST?

It is necessary for us to use "%device" value as it points to a PRTG Internal Variable.

Answer 1

Also encountered this. If you use the synonym placeholder %server instead of %device, then everything starts working.