diff --git a/detect_merge/merge.py b/detect_merge/merge.py
index b70acc6..a490c45 100644
--- a/detect_merge/merge.py
+++ b/detect_merge/merge.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def most_pix_around(pad=6, offset=2):
 
 def merge(img_path, compo_path, text_path, merge_root=None, is_paragraph=False, is_remove_bar=True, show=False, wait_key=0):
     compo_json = json.load(open(compo_path, 'r'))
-    text_json = json.load(open(text_path, 'r'))
+    text_json = json.load(open(text_path, 'r',encoding='utf-8'))
 
     # load text and non-text compo
     ele_id = 0
diff --git a/detect_text/text_detection.py b/detect_text/text_detection.py
index 30ac52c..197d0c7 100644
--- a/detect_text/text_detection.py
+++ b/detect_text/text_detection.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 
 def save_detection_json(file_path, texts, img_shape):
-    f_out = open(file_path, 'w')
+    f_out = open(file_path, 'w',encoding='utf-8')
     output = {'img_shape': img_shape, 'texts': []}
     for text in texts:
         c = {'id': text.id, 'content': text.content}
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def save_detection_json(file_path, texts, img_shape):
         c['width'] = text.width
         c['height'] = text.height
         output['texts'].append(c)
-    json.dump(output, f_out, indent=4)
+    json.dump(output, f_out, indent=4,ensure_ascii=False)
 
 
 def visualize_texts(org_img, texts, shown_resize_height=None, show=False, write_path=None):