You might need to understand some of the differences between richtext and plain text.
Rich text.
Rich text uses only an 8 bit format which allows it to use only unicode characters. However escape sequences for e.g. \u will tell the converter what to do.
To convert plain text to RTF, you will need to include the approrpriate rtf tags in plain text to make them work in rtf.
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