diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4983ab671d68ec77ece97d9ca68a31b3de2044f1..e6677f5809385f7afe8144c8808ce8bf8260f990 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
 
     <groupId>edu.unl.cse.csce361.socket_chat</groupId>
     <artifactId>SocketChat</artifactId>