Maven: Source Encoding in UTF-8 not working?

Question

i am converting a project from Ant to Maven and i\'m having problems with a specific unit test which deals with UTF-8 characters. The problem is about the following String:<

Answer 1

I have found a "solution" myself:

I had to pass the encoding into the maven-surefire-plugin, but the usual

${project.build.sourceEncoding}

did not work. I still have no idea why, but when i pass the command line arguments into the plugin, the tests works as they should:

      org.apache.maven.plugins
      maven-surefire-plugin
      2.15
      
        -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
      

Thanks for all your responses and additional comments!