diff --git a/dockingcore/pom.xml b/dockingcore/pom.xml
index 3440081358d50496f16471ec5b20396346c2830f..817a7ee642c41feb95c7d80be7cbe8458f29f20a 100644
--- a/dockingcore/pom.xml
+++ b/dockingcore/pom.xml
@@ -52,13 +52,13 @@
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+          <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+          <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
@@ -70,5 +70,7 @@
       <artifactId>BasicUtilities</artifactId>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
-
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
 </project>