diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ce5bce4..0549a1d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
     <name>reflective</name>
     <description>Reflective utils that don't use java.lang.reflect</description>
 
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>