diff --git a/jalopy/src/plugin-resources/jalopy_maven.xml b/jalopy/src/plugin-resources/jalopy_maven.xml
index abd8343e..7a0aed8f 100644
--- a/jalopy/src/plugin-resources/jalopy_maven.xml
+++ b/jalopy/src/plugin-resources/jalopy_maven.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <!-- 
 /*
  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.