diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 24de0e329c..74e05f01a4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@
 		</repository>
 	</repositories>
 	<build>
+		<sourceEncoding>UTF-8</sourceEncoding>
 		<plugins>
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>