diff --git a/backend/pom.xml b/backend/pom.xml
index 786f239709..63e378e36b 100644
--- a/backend/pom.xml
+++ b/backend/pom.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
                     <runOrder>alphabetical</runOrder>
+                    <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>