From 7830b151b944ecc8646a8d054848079f19728212 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Huber <26764588+alerosmile@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:34:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Specify correct encoding during bytearray-to-string
 conversion.

---
 .../src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/PropertyValue.java    | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/database/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/PropertyValue.java b/database/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/PropertyValue.java
index 221020ff..9c8cb1b6 100644
--- a/database/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/PropertyValue.java
+++ b/database/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/PropertyValue.java
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ public BytesStore(byte [] value) {
 
         @Override
         public String getValueAsString() {
-            return new String(this.value);
+            return new String(this.value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
         }
 
         @Override
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ public SealedStore(CharSequence charSequence) {
 
          @Override
         public String getValueAsString() {
-            return new String(getBytes());
+            return new String(getBytes(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
         }
 
         @Override

From 51949dce42e9614c6b891f1022e4e8916fdab2b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Huber <26764588+alerosmile@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:35:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Make sure 'testOutput' directory exists before accessing
 it.

---
 example/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/kdbx/QuickStart.java | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/example/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/kdbx/QuickStart.java b/example/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/kdbx/QuickStart.java
index 3ea075f5..f91dc774 100644
--- a/example/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/kdbx/QuickStart.java
+++ b/example/src/main/java/org/linguafranca/pwdb/kdbx/QuickStart.java
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ public void saveKdbx() throws IOException {
         }
 
         // save to a file with password "123"
+        new File("testOutput").mkdirs();
         try (FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream("testOutput/test.kdbx")) {
             database.save(new KdbxCreds("123".getBytes()), outputStream);
         }