diff --git a/modules/objdetect/misc/java/test/QRCodeDetectorTest.java b/modules/objdetect/misc/java/test/QRCodeDetectorTest.java
index 2a4ff81675..225c8c6610 100644
--- a/modules/objdetect/misc/java/test/QRCodeDetectorTest.java
+++ b/modules/objdetect/misc/java/test/QRCodeDetectorTest.java
@@ -57,28 +57,25 @@ public class QRCodeDetectorTest extends OpenCVTestCase {
         assertEquals(new HashSet<String>(output), new HashSet<String>(expectedResults));
     }
 
-    public void testKanji() throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
-        if (!Charset.isSupported("Shift_JIS"))
-            throw new TestSkipException();
-
-        String inp = new String("\u3053\u3093\u306B\u3061\u306F\u4E16\u754C");
-
+    public void testKanji() {
+        byte[] inp = new byte[]{(byte)0x82, (byte)0xb1, (byte)0x82, (byte)0xf1, (byte)0x82, (byte)0xc9, (byte)0x82,
+                                (byte)0xbf, (byte)0x82, (byte)0xcd, (byte)0x90, (byte)0xa2, (byte)0x8a, (byte)0x45};
         QRCodeEncoder_Params params = new QRCodeEncoder_Params();
         params.set_mode(QRCodeEncoder.MODE_KANJI);
         QRCodeEncoder encoder = QRCodeEncoder.create(params);
 
         Mat qrcode = new Mat();
-        encoder.encode(inp.getBytes("Shift_JIS"), qrcode);
+        encoder.encode(inp, qrcode);
         Imgproc.resize(qrcode, qrcode, new Size(0, 0), 2, 2, Imgproc.INTER_NEAREST);
 
         QRCodeDetector detector = new QRCodeDetector();
         byte[] output = detector.detectAndDecodeBytes(qrcode);
         assertEquals(detector.getEncoding(), QRCodeEncoder.ECI_SHIFT_JIS);
-        assertEquals(inp, new String(output, "Shift_JIS"));
+        assertArrayEquals(inp, output);
 
         List < byte[] > outputs = new ArrayList< byte[] >();
         assertTrue(detector.detectAndDecodeBytesMulti(qrcode, outputs));
         assertEquals(detector.getEncoding(0), QRCodeEncoder.ECI_SHIFT_JIS);
-        assertEquals(inp, new String(outputs.get(0), "Shift_JIS"));
+        assertArrayEquals(inp, outputs.get(0));
     }
 }