diff --git a/MinecraftClient/CSharpRunner.cs b/MinecraftClient/CSharpRunner.cs
index 6327a45b..58c1885a 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/CSharpRunner.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/CSharpRunner.cs
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient
         {
             string[] lines = null;
             ChatBots.Script.LookForScript(ref script);
-            try { lines = File.ReadAllLines(script); }
+            try { lines = File.ReadAllLines(script, Encoding.UTF8); }
             catch (Exception e) { throw new CSharpException(CSErrorType.FileReadError, e); }
             return CSharpRunner.Run(this, tickHandler, lines, args, localVars);
         }
diff --git a/MinecraftClient/ChatBot.cs b/MinecraftClient/ChatBot.cs
index 781d3d17..41e29bad 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/ChatBot.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/ChatBot.cs
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient
             {
                 //Read all lines from file, remove lines with no text, convert to lowercase,
                 //remove duplicate entries, convert to a string array, and return the result.
-                return File.ReadAllLines(file)
+                return File.ReadAllLines(file, Encoding.UTF8)
                         .Where(line => !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
                         .Select(line => line.ToLower())
                         .Distinct().ToArray();
diff --git a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/AutoRelog.cs b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/AutoRelog.cs
index d94818a3..ac788357 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/AutoRelog.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/AutoRelog.cs
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient.ChatBots
                     if (Settings.DebugMessages)
                         LogToConsole("Loading messages from file: " + System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(Settings.AutoRelog_KickMessagesFile));
 
-                    dictionary = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(Settings.AutoRelog_KickMessagesFile);
+                    dictionary = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(Settings.AutoRelog_KickMessagesFile, Encoding.UTF8);
 
                     for (int i = 0; i < dictionary.Length; i++)
                     {
diff --git a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/AutoRespond.cs b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/AutoRespond.cs
index 030f9a0b..abe9814d 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/AutoRespond.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/AutoRespond.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
 namespace MinecraftClient.ChatBots
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient.ChatBots
                 if (Settings.DebugMessages)
                     LogToConsole("Loading matches from file: " + System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(matchesFile));
 
-                foreach (string lineRAW in File.ReadAllLines(matchesFile))
+                foreach (string lineRAW in File.ReadAllLines(matchesFile, Encoding.UTF8))
                 {
                     string line = lineRAW.Split('#')[0].Trim();
                     if (line.Length > 0)
diff --git a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/HangmanGame.cs b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/HangmanGame.cs
index 0ea3c2ea..49ec5ea1 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/HangmanGame.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/HangmanGame.cs
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient.ChatBots
         {
             if (System.IO.File.Exists(English ? Settings.Hangman_FileWords_EN : Settings.Hangman_FileWords_FR))
             {
-                string[] dico = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(English ? Settings.Hangman_FileWords_EN : Settings.Hangman_FileWords_FR);
+                string[] dico = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(English ? Settings.Hangman_FileWords_EN : Settings.Hangman_FileWords_FR, Encoding.UTF8);
                 return dico[new Random().Next(dico.Length)];
             }
             else
diff --git a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/Script.cs b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/Script.cs
index 62e97940..89eb92a4 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/Script.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/Script.cs
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient.ChatBots
             //Load the given file from the startup parameters
             if (LookForScript(ref file))
             {
-                lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(file);
+                lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(file, Encoding.UTF8);
                 csharp = file.EndsWith(".cs");
                 thread = null;
 
diff --git a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/ScriptScheduler.cs b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/ScriptScheduler.cs
index daf43d72..f418570d 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/ScriptScheduler.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/ChatBots/ScriptScheduler.cs
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient.ChatBots
                 if (Settings.DebugMessages)
                     LogToConsole("Loading tasks from '" + System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(tasksfile) + "'");
                 TaskDesc current_task = null;
-                String[] lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(tasksfile);
+                String[] lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(tasksfile, Encoding.UTF8);
                 foreach (string lineRAW in lines)
                 {
                     string line = lineRAW.Split('#')[0].Trim();
diff --git a/MinecraftClient/Mapping/BlockPalettes/BlockPaletteGenerator.cs b/MinecraftClient/Mapping/BlockPalettes/BlockPaletteGenerator.cs
index 52e8b28f..ff267572 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/Mapping/BlockPalettes/BlockPaletteGenerator.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/Mapping/BlockPalettes/BlockPaletteGenerator.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.IO;
+using System.Text;
 
 namespace MinecraftClient.Mapping.BlockPalettes
 {
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient.Mapping.BlockPalettes
     public static class BlockPaletteGenerator
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// Generate mapping from Minecraft blocks.jsom
+        /// Generate mapping from Minecraft blocks.json
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="blocksJsonFile">path to blocks.json</param>
         /// <param name="outputClass">output path for blocks.cs</param>
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient.Mapping.BlockPalettes
             HashSet<int> knownStates = new HashSet<int>();
             Dictionary<string, HashSet<int>> blocks = new Dictionary<string, HashSet<int>>();
 
-            Json.JSONData palette = Json.ParseJson(File.ReadAllText(blocksJsonFile));
+            Json.JSONData palette = Json.ParseJson(File.ReadAllText(blocksJsonFile, Encoding.UTF8));
             foreach (KeyValuePair<string, Json.JSONData> item in palette.Properties)
             {
                 //minecraft:item_name => ItemName
diff --git a/MinecraftClient/McTcpClient.cs b/MinecraftClient/McTcpClient.cs
index ded49bd8..44086df7 100644
--- a/MinecraftClient/McTcpClient.cs
+++ b/MinecraftClient/McTcpClient.cs
@@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ namespace MinecraftClient
         public void OnExplosion(Location location, float strength, int affectedBlocks)
         {
             foreach (ChatBot bot in bots.ToArray())
-                bot.OnExplosion(explode, strength, ExplosionRecordCount);
+                bot.OnExplosion(location, strength, affectedBlocks);
         }
 
         /// <summary>