diff --git a/contact-center/root/pom.xml b/contact-center/root/pom.xml
index d0a6c3f8..1a291457 100644
--- a/contact-center/root/pom.xml
+++ b/contact-center/root/pom.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <java.version>1.8</java.version>
+        <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
     </properties>
     <dependencies>