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I use the maven-resource-plugin to filter some resources in my maven project. In my parent project I have:
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
In a sub project I have a test.properties file which is a plain java properties file with default encoding=ISO-8859-1. This file contains:
aboutText=Version ${project.version} © 2012 blabla
To make sure this file filters correctly I have split the maven-resource-plugin into separate executions each with its encoding:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<nonFilteredFileExtensions>
<nonFilteredFileExtension>ico</nonFilteredFileExtension>
<nonFilteredFileExtension>jar</nonFilteredFileExtension>
</nonFilteredFileExtensions>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>filter-properties-files</id>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<!-- java properties files are encoded in ISO-8859-1 so when
filtering those files we stick with that encoding. -->
<encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/after</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<directory>${basedir}/before</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*.properties</include>