diff --git a/content-core/src/main/java/org/xbib/content/settings/PropertiesSettingsLoader.java b/content-core/src/main/java/org/xbib/content/settings/PropertiesSettingsLoader.java
index afa0b18..c93aa27 100644
--- a/content-core/src/main/java/org/xbib/content/settings/PropertiesSettingsLoader.java
+++ b/content-core/src/main/java/org/xbib/content/settings/PropertiesSettingsLoader.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ public class PropertiesSettingsLoader implements SettingsLoader {
     @Override
     public Map<String, String> load(BytesReference ref) throws IOException {
         Properties props = new Properties();
-        try (Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(ref.streamInput())) {
+        try (Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(ref.streamInput(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
             props.load(reader);
             Map<String, String> result = new HashMap<>();
             for (Map.Entry<Object, Object> entry : props.entrySet()) {
diff --git a/content-core/src/test/java/org/xbib/content/settings/SettingsTest.java b/content-core/src/test/java/org/xbib/content/settings/SettingsTest.java
index 6df296b..f5cfa7e 100644
--- a/content-core/src/test/java/org/xbib/content/settings/SettingsTest.java
+++ b/content-core/src/test/java/org/xbib/content/settings/SettingsTest.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package org.xbib.content.settings;
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.xbib.content.XContentHelper;
@@ -180,10 +181,12 @@ public class SettingsTest {
     @Test
     public void testRefresher() throws Exception {
         Settings settings = Settings.settingsBuilder()
-                .setRefresh(Paths.get("src/test/resources/settings.json"), 0L, 1L, TimeUnit.DAYS)
+                .put("name", "hello")
+                .setRefresh(Paths.get("src/test/resources/settings.json"), 1L, 1L, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                 .build();
-        Thread.sleep(1000L);
-        assertEquals("Jörg Prante", settings.get("name"));
+        assertEquals("hello", settings.get("name"));
+        Thread.sleep(2000L);
+        assertEquals("world", settings.get("name"));
         settings.close();
     }
 }
diff --git a/content-core/src/test/resources/settings.json b/content-core/src/test/resources/settings.json
index 8b412ed..7e183a7 100644
--- a/content-core/src/test/resources/settings.json
+++ b/content-core/src/test/resources/settings.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "name": "Jörg Prante"
+  "name": "world"
 }
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 3b893ff..1aa110a 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 group = org.xbib
 name = content
-version = 2.3.1
+version = 2.3.2
 
 gradle.wrapper.version = 6.4.1
 xbib.net.version = 2.1.0
-jackson.version = 2.11.0
-jackson.databind.version = 2.11.0
+jackson.version = 2.11.1
+jackson.databind.version = 2.11.1
 woodstox.version = 6.2.1
 snakeyaml.version = 1.26
 mockito.version = 3.3.3