sshd attacks: a little question about weird username

This is regarding the same old sshd attackes we see so commonly now a
days. My log is full of them and I get one or two every couple of days
or so.

Today however, I noticed these lines:
Jul 28 08:54:48 localhost sshd[12559]: Did not receive identification
string from ::ffff:61.111.254.130
Jul 28 09:06:51 localhost sshd[12561]: Illegal user \357\273\277root
from ::ffff:61.111.254.130

What does that "\357\273\277root" in the second line mean? I don't
recall noticing this earlier.

thanks,
->HS

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> What does that "\357\273\277root" in the second line mean? I don't
> recall noticing this earlier.
the characters before root because of a character conversion.
either illegal or unknown characters
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