# How to specify files encoding?

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-specify-files-encoding/43299
**Category:** Coding Questions
**Created:** [November 24, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-specify-files-encoding/43299 "2023-11-24T21:17:32Z")
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### Author: ![MGDSStudio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MGDSStudio](https://discourse.processing.org/u/MGDSStudio)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-specify-files-encoding/43299/1 "2023-11-24T21:17:32Z")

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I have troubles with deployment of my videogame for Windows 64 platform. After the export with embedded Java I can not read Cyrillic text from external files. This means - I can read normally Cyrrilc text from an external files when I launch the code from an IDE (Processing IDE or Intellij IDEa - both work perfect). But after export I receive only hieroglyphs. Hardcodded strings are shown normally. I tried three tools to create an executable release version of my videogame. They work perfect with LibGDX, but with Processing I receive this encoding error. I think I should force set the external files encoding when I read external files. Or there are another ways to set the encoding on UTF-8? How can I solve this problem?

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Thanks!