diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 3857c7a5..7caf8911 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -118,7 +118,10 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>2.22.2</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<argLine>${jacoco.agent.argLine}</argLine>
+                                        <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
+					<inputEncoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</inputEncoding>
+					<outputEncoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</outputEncoding>
+					<argLine>${jacoco.agent.argLine} -Dfile.encoding=${project.build.sourceEncoding} -Dline.separator=$'\n'</argLine>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 			<plugin>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7b8d16a2..68340bef 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+                <project.build.resourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.resourceEncoding>
 		<slf4jVersion>1.7.30</slf4jVersion>
 		<junitVersion>4.13.1</junitVersion>
 		<logbackVersion>1.2.3</logbackVersion>
diff --git a/toolkit/pom.xml b/toolkit/pom.xml
index 591b3379..6ed3472a 100644
--- a/toolkit/pom.xml
+++ b/toolkit/pom.xml
@@ -113,7 +113,10 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>2.22.2</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<argLine>${jacoco.agent.argLine}</argLine>
+                                        <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
+				        <inputEncoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</inputEncoding>
+				        <outputEncoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</outputEncoding>
+					<argLine>${jacoco.agent.argLine} -Dfile.encoding=${project.build.sourceEncoding} -Dline.separator=$'\n'</argLine>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>