diff --git a/paper-api/pom.xml b/paper-api/pom.xml
index 239ffc7021..27bd66c585 100644
--- a/paper-api/pom.xml
+++ b/paper-api/pom.xml
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
   <artifactId>bukkit</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>Bukkit</name>
+  <properties>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+  </properties>
   <url>http://www.bukkit.org</url>
     <build>
         <plugins>
@@ -32,4 +35,4 @@
             <version>1.1</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>