maven platform encoding

Question

when you run mvn --version part of the output includes the locale and pratform encoding. For example: Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: Cp1252

Answer 1

maven picking these values from Java system properties. Here is how you could set encoding:

  UTF-8

Or:

  
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-resources-plugin
    
      UTF-8
    
  

Or pass parameter to maven command line:

mvn -Dproject.build.sourceEncoding=UTF-8