go to post Sorin Petrescu · Mar 12, 2021 UTF8 has to be set to the socket translation table: Set sock.TranslationTable="UTF8" and the solution in objectscript for the Java function: DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream()); out.writeUTF(str); is the following: Do sock.Write($$setShort($Length(str)), 0, .sc) Do sock.Write(str, 0, .sc) setShort(num) {Quit $Reverse($ZWChar(num))}