diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index cce32f5464..8b741fcf52 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@
                 <configuration>
                     <!-- CircleCI build workaround -->
                     <argLine>@{argLine} -Xms1024m -Xmx2048m</argLine>
+                    <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
                     <useSystemClassLoader>false</useSystemClassLoader>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>