diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d0e831954..479bae231 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
     </distributionManagement>
     
     <properties>
-    	<project.build.sourceEncoding>ISO-8859-1</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    	<project.reporting.outputEncoding>ISO-8859-1</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
+    	<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    	<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
   	</properties>
 
 	<build>
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 				<configuration>
 					<source>1.8</source>
 					<target>1.8</target>
-					<encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>