diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 82a39679e..6b0668be8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -301,8 +301,11 @@
           <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>2.16</version>
           <configuration>
-            <encoding>utf-8</encoding>
             <runOrder>alphabetical</runOrder>
+            <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+            <inputEncoding>UTF-8</inputEncoding>
+            <outputEncoding>UTF-8</outputEncoding>
+            <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>