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Stop Maven's Update at Eclipse from changing my encoding settings

Every time i Update my project at Eclipse, i see at my git files that the file .settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs are changed from ISO-8859-1 (which my project uses) to UTF-8.

I have already changed at eclipse's preference to ISO-8859-1 and the problem continues.

Solution

  • Define the encoding in the pom:

       <project>
      ...
      <properties>
          <project.build.sourceEncoding>ISO-8859-1</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      </properties>
      ...
   </project>

    Maybe UTF-8 is defined somewhere to be the default if this property is missing.