diff --git a/src/main/java/electroblob/wizardry/client/gui/GuiSpellDisplay.java b/src/main/java/electroblob/wizardry/client/gui/GuiSpellDisplay.java
index e511c6f1..6af46ce3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/electroblob/wizardry/client/gui/GuiSpellDisplay.java
+++ b/src/main/java/electroblob/wizardry/client/gui/GuiSpellDisplay.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
 @Mod.EventBusSubscriber(Side.CLIENT)
 public class GuiSpellDisplay {
@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ public class GuiSpellDisplay {
 			
 			for(IResource indexFile : indexFiles){
 				
-				BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(indexFile.getInputStream()));
+				BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(indexFile.getInputStream(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
 				
 				JsonElement je = gson.fromJson(reader, JsonElement.class);
 				JsonObject json = je.getAsJsonObject();