diff --git a/installer/ipkg/filebot.sh b/installer/ipkg/filebot.sh
index 903ed42e..9f2f9422 100644
--- a/installer/ipkg/filebot.sh
+++ b/installer/ipkg/filebot.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-java -Dunixfs=false -DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=10000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=60000 -Dapplication.deployment=ipkg -Dapplication.analytics=true -Duser.home=/opt/usr/share/filebot/data -Dapplication.dir=/opt/usr/share/filebot/data -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/usr/share/filebot/data/temp -Djna.library.path=/opt/usr/share/filebot -Djava.library.path=/opt/usr/share/filebot -jar /opt/usr/share/filebot/FileBot.jar "$@"
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+java -Dunixfs=false -DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=10000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=60000 -Dapplication.deployment=ipkg -Dapplication.analytics=true -Duser.home=/opt/usr/share/filebot/data -Dapplication.dir=/opt/usr/share/filebot/data -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/usr/share/filebot/data/temp -Djna.library.path=/opt/usr/share/filebot -Djava.library.path=/opt/usr/share/filebot -jar /opt/usr/share/filebot/FileBot.jar "$@"
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diff --git a/installer/portable/filebot.sh b/installer/portable/filebot.sh
index 85614494..96bc8ae6 100644
--- a/installer/portable/filebot.sh
+++ b/installer/portable/filebot.sh
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ dir_bin="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
 # force JVM language and encoding settings
 export LANG=en_US.utf8
 
-java -Dunixfs=false -DuseGVFS=false -DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=10000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=60000 -Dapplication.deployment=portable -Dapplication.analytics=true -Dapplication.warmup=false "-Dapplication.dir=$dir_bin" "-Djava.io.tmpdir=$dir_bin/temp" "-Duser.home=$dir_bin" "-Djna.library.path=$dir_bin" "-Djava.library.path=$dir_bin" -Djava.util.prefs.PreferencesFactory=net.sourceforge.tuned.prefs.FilePreferencesFactory "-Dnet.sourceforge.tuned.prefs.file=$dir_bin/prefs.properties" -jar "$dir_bin/FileBot.jar" "$@"
+java -Dunixfs=false -DuseGVFS=false -DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=10000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=60000 -Dapplication.deployment=portable -Dapplication.analytics=true -Dapplication.warmup=false "-Dapplication.dir=$dir_bin" "-Djava.io.tmpdir=$dir_bin/temp" "-Duser.home=$dir_bin" "-Djna.library.path=$dir_bin" "-Djava.library.path=$dir_bin" -Djava.util.prefs.PreferencesFactory=net.sourceforge.tuned.prefs.FilePreferencesFactory "-Dnet.sourceforge.tuned.prefs.file=$dir_bin/prefs.properties" -jar "$dir_bin/FileBot.jar" "$@"