diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 64e2e5151..4d2cc1e0d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
     </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>
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
                 <configuration>
                     <source>1.8</source>
                     <target>1.8</target>
-                    <encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>