A character encoding scheme such as ASCII, UTF-8 or UTF-16 can be chosen to be used for the reading and writing of files.
For example, if we want to specify that the character encoding scheme be UTF-8, we would simply have to modify the POM.
<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<configuration>
...
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
...
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
...
</build>
...
</project>