diff --git a/scripts/edumips64-snap-wrapper.sh b/scripts/edumips64-snap-wrapper.sh
index 9277735c1..c8b99fb47 100755
--- a/scripts/edumips64-snap-wrapper.sh
+++ b/scripts/edumips64-snap-wrapper.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-$SNAP/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-$SNAP_ARCH/bin/java -jar -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot="$SNAP_USER_DATA" $SNAP/jar/edumips64.jar $*
+$SNAP/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-$SNAP_ARCH/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot="$SNAP_USER_DATA" -jar $SNAP/jar/edumips64.jar $*