diff --git a/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/tree/render/BatchEvaluator.kt b/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/tree/render/BatchEvaluator.kt
index 73ed79bce82f..a8da62d7ec22 100644
--- a/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/tree/render/BatchEvaluator.kt
+++ b/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/tree/render/BatchEvaluator.kt
@@ -106,7 +106,9 @@ class BatchEvaluator private constructor() {
               var count = 0
               while (dis.available() > 0) {
                 val error = dis.readBoolean()
-                val message = dis.readUTF()
+                val data = ByteArray(dis.readInt())
+                dis.readFully(data)
+                val message = String(data, Charsets.UTF_8)
                 if (count >= requests.size) {
                   LOG.error("Invalid number of results: required " + requests.size + ", reply = " + bytes.contentToString())
                   return false
diff --git a/java/java-runtime/src/com/intellij/rt/debugger/BatchEvaluatorServer.java b/java/java-runtime/src/com/intellij/rt/debugger/BatchEvaluatorServer.java
index 295d3f605560..ab6050b6ae9b 100644
--- a/java/java-runtime/src/com/intellij/rt/debugger/BatchEvaluatorServer.java
+++ b/java/java-runtime/src/com/intellij/rt/debugger/BatchEvaluatorServer.java
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright 2000-2024 JetBrains s.r.o. and contributors. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license.
+// Copyright 2000-2025 JetBrains s.r.o. and contributors. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license.
 
 /*
  * @author Eugene Zhuravlev
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ package com.intellij.rt.debugger;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
 @SuppressWarnings("unused")
 public final class BatchEvaluatorServer {
@@ -33,7 +34,11 @@ public final class BatchEvaluatorServer {
       }
 
       dos.writeBoolean(error);
-      dos.writeUTF(res);
+      // do not use writeUTF as it supports only 65535 symbols
+      // dos.writeUTF(res);
+      byte[] stringBytes = res.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+      dos.writeInt(stringBytes.length);
+      dos.write(stringBytes);
     }
     return bas.toString("ISO-8859-1");
   }