diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3d51d4fa2783fc4b52025cec049e5116e0f42ffb..7695ff0f2ddff2478b3e7c9dd4899ef50335c2aa 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -111,6 +111,16 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
           <remoteTagging>true</remoteTagging><!-- work around http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-406 -->
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <!--
+            *.html files are in UTF-8, and *.properties are in iso-8859-1, so this configuration is acturally incorrect,
+            but this suppresses a warning from Maven, and as long as we don't do filtering we should be OK.
+          -->
+          <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
         <inherited>false</inherited>