diff --git a/EpcQrCode/src/commonMain/kotlin/net/codinux/banking/epcqrcode/EpcQrCodeGenerator.kt b/EpcQrCode/src/commonMain/kotlin/net/codinux/banking/epcqrcode/EpcQrCodeGenerator.kt
index a98d45d..e291c99 100644
--- a/EpcQrCode/src/commonMain/kotlin/net/codinux/banking/epcqrcode/EpcQrCodeGenerator.kt
+++ b/EpcQrCode/src/commonMain/kotlin/net/codinux/banking/epcqrcode/EpcQrCodeGenerator.kt
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ open class EpcQrCodeGenerator {
     open fun generateEpcQrCode(config: EpcQrCodeConfig): EpcQrCode {
         val heightAndWidth = config.qrCodeHeightAndWidth
         val epcQrCodeContent = generateAsString(config)
+        val epcQrCodeContentBytes = epcQrCodeContent.encodeToByteArray() // qrCode.msg() contains a bug for UTF-8 characters -> encode manually to bytes
 
-        val qrCodeBitmap = qrCode.msg(epcQrCodeContent)
+        val qrCodeBitmap = qrCode.msg(epcQrCodeContentBytes)
             .scaled(heightAndWidth, heightAndWidth, true)
 
         val qrCodeBytes = convertToFormat(qrCodeBitmap, config.imageFormat)