diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 33e1d35c..35257c29 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - Fix bukkit and downstream fork MOTD crash ([Merge Request](https://gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-4/-/merge_requests/686))
 - Fix bug where invalid server Id leads to stack ([Merge Request](https://gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-4/-/merge_requests/690))
 - Fix indent on public status check box ([Merge Request](https://gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-4/-/merge_requests/691))
+- Fix unicode chars in terminal & logs w/ textiowrapper ([Merge Request](https://gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-4/-/merge_requests/689))
 ### Tweaks
 - Refactor Forge server initialisation flow for newer versions ([Merge Request](https://gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-4/-/merge_requests/687))
 - Remove scroll bars from player management ([Merge Request](https://gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-4/-/merge_requests/693))
diff --git a/app/classes/shared/server.py b/app/classes/shared/server.py
index 24c67a0e..e47fe19c 100644
--- a/app/classes/shared/server.py
+++ b/app/classes/shared/server.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from contextlib import redirect_stderr
 import os
+import io
 import re
 import shutil
 import time
@@ -116,14 +117,17 @@ class ServerOutBuf:
                 ServerOutBuf.lines[self.server_id].pop(0)
 
     def check(self):
+        text_wrapper = io.TextIOWrapper(
+            self.proc.stdout, encoding="UTF-8", errors="ignore", newline=""
+        )
         while True:
             if self.proc.poll() is None:
-                char = self.proc.stdout.read(1).decode("utf-8", "ignore")
+                char = text_wrapper.read(1)  # modified
                 # TODO: we may want to benchmark reading in blocks and userspace
                 # processing it later, reads are kind of expensive as a syscall
                 self.process_byte(char)
             else:
-                flush = self.proc.stdout.read().decode("utf-8", "ignore")
+                flush = text_wrapper.read()  # modified
                 for char in flush:
                     self.process_byte(char)
                 break
diff --git a/app/frontend/templates/panel/server_logs.html b/app/frontend/templates/panel/server_logs.html
index 9a4033a1..32f3cb66 100644
--- a/app/frontend/templates/panel/server_logs.html
+++ b/app/frontend/templates/panel/server_logs.html
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
     const token = getCookie("_xsrf")
     let colors = true;
     if (!$("#stop_scroll").is(':checked')) {
-      let res = await fetch(`/api/v2/servers/${serverId}/logs?colors=${colors}`, {
+      let res = await fetch(`/api/v2/servers/${serverId}/logs?colors=${colors}&file=true`, {
         method: 'GET',
         headers: {
           'X-XSRFToken': token