diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index a2597272d..cca97276c 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@ projectVersion=0.38a1-SNAPSHOT
 # WARNING: replacing -SNAPSHOT with -a1 (or even -rc) gives an *earlier*
 # version according to both algorithms.  Proactively including the `a1` preserves
 # our ability to release an alpha that will properly sort *after* its snapshots.
+
+
+# https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/best_practices_performance.html#use_utf8_encoding
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index f8e1ee312..d997cfc60 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 23449a2b5..dbc3ce4a0 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.2.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.4.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index adff685a0..0262dcbd5 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/platforms/jvm/plugins-application/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/b631911858264c0b6e4d6603d677ff5218766cee/platforms/jvm/plugins-application/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.