diff --git a/src/main/java/de/aschoerk/java2rust/JavaConverter.java b/src/main/java/de/aschoerk/java2rust/JavaConverter.java
index eb75ea4..1da83d0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/aschoerk/java2rust/JavaConverter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/aschoerk/java2rust/JavaConverter.java
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ private String convert2Rust(File file, String outputDir) throws IOException {
 				output += camelToSnakeCase(outputSplit[0]) + EXTENSION;
 				
 				// read the content of the file
-				String text = Files.readString(path, StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
+				String text = Files.readString(path);
 
 				System.out.println("- "+output);