diff --git a/apidocs/pom.xml b/apidocs/pom.xml
index be86ea23..8718d7c3 100644
--- a/apidocs/pom.xml
+++ b/apidocs/pom.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
   </profile>
   </profiles>
   <properties>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
   <doctools.version>1.5.0</doctools.version>
   </properties>