diff --git a/rest/taskana-rest-spring-example/pom.xml b/rest/taskana-rest-spring-example/pom.xml
index 4b655c334..446fb1b0d 100644
--- a/rest/taskana-rest-spring-example/pom.xml
+++ b/rest/taskana-rest-spring-example/pom.xml
@@ -103,12 +103,6 @@
 		<artifactId>spring-ldap-core</artifactId>
 		<version>${spring.ldap.version}</version>
 	</dependency>
-	<dependency>
-		<groupId>junit</groupId>
-		<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-		<version>4.12</version>
-		<scope>test</scope>
-	</dependency>
 
 	<dependency>
 		<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
diff --git a/rest/taskana-rest-spring-example/src/main/java/pro/taskana/sampledata/SampleDataGenerator.java b/rest/taskana-rest-spring-example/src/main/java/pro/taskana/sampledata/SampleDataGenerator.java
index c4d56926b..709306e18 100644
--- a/rest/taskana-rest-spring-example/src/main/java/pro/taskana/sampledata/SampleDataGenerator.java
+++ b/rest/taskana-rest-spring-example/src/main/java/pro/taskana/sampledata/SampleDataGenerator.java
@@ -59,15 +59,17 @@ public class SampleDataGenerator {
     }
 
     /**
-     * This method resolves the custom sql function defined through this regex: {@value RELATIVE_DATE_REGEX}.
-     * Its parameter is a digit representing the relative offset of a given starting point date.
+     * This method resolves the custom sql function defined through this regex: {@value RELATIVE_DATE_REGEX}. Its
+     * parameter is a digit representing the relative offset of a given starting point date.
      * <p/>
-     * Yes, this can be done as an actual sql function, but that'd lead to a little more complexity
-     * (and thus we'd have to maintain the code for db compatibility ...)
-     * Since we're already replacing the boolean attributes of sql files this addition is not a huge computational cost.
+     * Yes, this can be done as an actual sql function, but that'd lead to a little more complexity (and thus we'd have
+     * to maintain the code for db compatibility ...) Since we're already replacing the boolean attributes of sql files
+     * this addition is not a huge computational cost.
      *
-     * @param now anchor for relative date conversion.
-     * @param sql sql statement which may contain the above declared custom function.
+     * @param now
+     *            anchor for relative date conversion.
+     * @param sql
+     *            sql statement which may contain the above declared custom function.
      * @return sql statement with the given function resolved, if the 'sql' parameter contained any.
      */
     private static String replaceRelativeTimeFunction(LocalDateTime now, String sql) {
@@ -82,7 +84,8 @@ public class SampleDataGenerator {
     }
 
     private static String parseAndReplace(LocalDateTime now, InputStream stream) {
-        try (BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream))) {
+        try (
+            BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8))) {
             return replaceRelativeTimeFunction(now,
                 bufferedReader.lines().collect(Collectors.joining(System.lineSeparator())));
         } catch (IOException e) {