diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 81d853db31..82536389b4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
             <version>${junit.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit-jupiter-params</artifactId>
+            <version>${junit.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/scripting/AbstractScriptManager.java b/src/main/java/scripting/AbstractScriptManager.java
index 017e30cecc..f32487e438 100644
--- a/src/main/java/scripting/AbstractScriptManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/scripting/AbstractScriptManager.java
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ package scripting;
 
 import client.Client;
 import com.oracle.truffle.js.scriptengine.GraalJSScriptEngine;
-import constants.string.CharsetConstants;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import javax.script.*;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractScriptManager {
 
         enableScriptHostAccess(graalScriptEngine);
 
-        try (BufferedReader br = Files.newBufferedReader(scriptFile, CharsetConstants.CHARSET)) {
+        try (BufferedReader br = Files.newBufferedReader(scriptFile, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
             engine.eval(br);
         } catch (final ScriptException | IOException t) {
             log.warn("Exception during script eval for file: {}", path, t);
diff --git a/src/test/java/scripting/ScriptEvaluationTest.java b/src/test/java/scripting/ScriptEvaluationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..200974596d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/scripting/ScriptEvaluationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package scripting;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.MethodSource;
+
+import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+
+public class ScriptEvaluationTest {
+    private AbstractScriptManager scriptManager = new AbstractScriptManager() {};
+
+    @BeforeAll
+    static void muteGraal() {
+        System.setProperty("polyglot.engine.WarnInterpreterOnly", "false");
+    }
+
+    public static List<String> npcScriptFiles() throws IOException {
+        Path npcScriptDirectory = Path.of("scripts", "npc");
+        try (Stream<Path> pathStream = Files.walk(npcScriptDirectory)) {
+            return pathStream
+                    .filter(Files::isRegularFile)
+                    .map(ScriptEvaluationTest::mapToNpcScriptPath)
+                    .toList();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static String mapToNpcScriptPath(Path path) {
+        return "npc/%s".formatted(path.getFileName().toString());
+    }
+
+    @ParameterizedTest
+    @MethodSource("npcScriptFiles")
+    void npcScriptShouldEvaluate(String npcScriptPath) {
+        ScriptEngine scriptEngine = scriptManager.getInvocableScriptEngine(npcScriptPath);
+
+        assertNotNull(scriptEngine);
+    }
+}