diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index e33a2943f83..ce33c7f77ec 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Oliver Kopp (since 2011)
 Simon Harrer (since 2014)
-Joerg Lenhard (since 2015)
-Stefan Kolb  (since 2015)
+Jörg Lenhard (since 2015)
+Stefan Kolb (since 2015)
 Matthias Geiger (since 2015)
 Oscar Gustafsson (since 2015)
-Tobias Diez  (since 2015)
+Tobias Diez (since 2015)
 Christoph Schwentker (since 2016)
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 75f408406aa..87a19977d73 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ install4j {
     installDir = file(project.ext.install4jDir)
 }
 
+
 repositories {
     jcenter()
 }
@@ -151,9 +152,9 @@ processResources {
                 "year": String.valueOf(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR)),
                 "authors": new File('AUTHORS').readLines().findAll { !it.startsWith("#") }.join(", "),
                 "developers": new File('DEVELOPERS').readLines().findAll { !it.startsWith("#") }.join(", "))
-
                 filteringCharset = 'UTF-8'
     }
+    filteringCharset = 'UTF-8'
 
     filesMatching("resource/**/meta.xml") {
         expand version: project.version
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/util/BuildInfo.java b/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/util/BuildInfo.java
index 6a29d83a1ec..2fda1d53ab1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/util/BuildInfo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/util/BuildInfo.java
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
 public class BuildInfo {
@@ -18,6 +20,7 @@ public class BuildInfo {
     private final String developers;
     private final String year;
 
+
     public BuildInfo() {
         this("/build.properties");
     }
@@ -25,9 +28,11 @@ public BuildInfo() {
     public BuildInfo(String path) {
         Properties properties = new Properties();
 
-        try (InputStream stream = getClass().getResourceAsStream(path)) {
-            if(stream != null) {
-                properties.load(stream);
+        try (InputStream stream = BuildInfo.class.getResourceAsStream(path)) {
+            if (stream != null) {
+                try (InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(stream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
+                    properties.load(reader);
+                }
             }
         } catch (IOException ignored) {
             // nothing to do -> default already set