# Loading and printing UTF-8 content in a wowza module

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/loading-and-printing-utf-8-content-in-a-wowza-module/102344>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [December 1, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/loading-and-printing-utf-8-content-in-a-wowza-module/102344 "2024-12-01T14:28:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/loading-and-printing-utf-8-content-in-a-wowza-module/102344/1 "2024-12-01T14:28:59Z")

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I’ve run into trouble loading UTF-8 text for a test onTextData module. . And then trying to print it. In a spring app it’s loading the files correctly. Any ideas.

Its a problem for Japanese, Chinese and Russian

In Wowza it’s gibberish which possibly explains why it’s gibberish in webvtt output in HLS.

Text like this

```
Вот гораздо более длинный второй субтитр, который должен заполнить большую часть экрана.

```

Shows up as this in the console and log

Line: ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???, ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???. ru

I have set encoding to UTF-8 in the tune config

```
<VMOption>-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -DFile.Encoding=UTF-8</VMOption>

```

The code to load content as utf8

```
 String textFile = SystemUtils.expandEnvironmentVariables(textFileStr, pathMap);
		    
		    //getLogger().info("FILE: " + textFile);
		    
		    onTextDataList = new ArrayList<OnTextData>();
		    
		    File textFileObj = new File(textFile);
		    
		    BufferedReader inf = null;
		    
		    if (textFileObj.exists())
			{
		    	//inf = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(textFileObj, ));
		    	 inf = new BufferedReader(
  			           new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(textFileObj), "UTF-8"));

```