diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.SRFPlay/Api/SRFApiClient.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.SRFPlay/Api/SRFApiClient.cs
index 925a8a8..b58f424 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Plugin.SRFPlay/Api/SRFApiClient.cs
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.SRFPlay/Api/SRFApiClient.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using System;
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.Net;
 using System.Net.Http;
+using System.Text.Encodings.Web;
 using System.Text.Json;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
@@ -51,7 +52,8 @@ public class SRFApiClient : IDisposable
 
         _jsonOptions = new JsonSerializerOptions
         {
-            PropertyNameCaseInsensitive = true
+            PropertyNameCaseInsensitive = true,
+            Encoder = JavaScriptEncoder.UnsafeRelaxedJsonEscaping
         };
     }
 
@@ -110,6 +112,7 @@ public class SRFApiClient : IDisposable
         client.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.ParseAdd("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36");
         client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.ParseAdd("*/*");
         client.DefaultRequestHeaders.AcceptLanguage.ParseAdd("en-US,en;q=0.9");
+        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Charset", "utf-8");
 
         _logger.LogInformation(
             "HttpClient created with HTTP/1.1 and headers - User-Agent: {UserAgent}, Accept: {Accept}, Accept-Language: {AcceptLanguage}",
diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.SRFPlay/Controllers/StreamProxyController.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.SRFPlay/Controllers/StreamProxyController.cs
index d799429..88d8186 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Plugin.SRFPlay/Controllers/StreamProxyController.cs
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.SRFPlay/Controllers/StreamProxyController.cs
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ public class StreamProxyController : ControllerBase
             AddManifestCacheHeaders(actualItemId);
 
             _logger.LogDebug("Returning master manifest for item {ItemId} ({Length} bytes)", itemId, manifestContent.Length);
-            return Content(manifestContent, "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl");
+            return Content(manifestContent, "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl; charset=utf-8");
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ public class StreamProxyController : ControllerBase
             AddManifestCacheHeaders(actualItemId);
 
             _logger.LogDebug("Returning variant manifest for item {ItemId} ({Length} bytes)", itemId, rewrittenContent.Length);
-            return Content(rewrittenContent, "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl");
+            return Content(rewrittenContent, "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl; charset=utf-8");
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {