diff --git a/artifact/src/main/org/apache/maven/artifact/PomRewriter.java b/artifact/src/main/org/apache/maven/artifact/PomRewriter.java
index 6337edcd..8aa2eb13 100644
--- a/artifact/src/main/org/apache/maven/artifact/PomRewriter.java
+++ b/artifact/src/main/org/apache/maven/artifact/PomRewriter.java
@@ -16,14 +16,6 @@ package org.apache.maven.artifact;
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileWriter;
-import java.io.StringReader;
-import java.lang.reflect.Method;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.Map;
-
 import org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyContext;
 import org.apache.maven.MavenException;
 import org.apache.maven.MavenUtils;
@@ -35,6 +27,17 @@ import org.apache.maven.project.io.stax.MavenStaxReader;
 import org.apache.maven.project.io.stax.MavenStaxWriter;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil;
 
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 /**
  * Rewrite a full model for publishing. Inheritence and expression will have been resolved.
  *
@@ -47,16 +50,16 @@ public class PomRewriter
         throws MavenException
     {
         final Model model = PomRewriter.getRewrittenModel( project.getFile(), project.getContext() );
-
-        FileWriter w = null;
+        if ( model.getModelEncoding() == null )
+            model.setModelEncoding( "UTF-8" );
+        Writer w = null;
         try
         {
             final MavenStaxWriter writer = new MavenStaxWriter();
             final File f = File.createTempFile( "maven-artifact-plugin.", null );
             f.deleteOnExit();
-            w = new FileWriter( f );
+            w = new BufferedWriter( new OutputStreamWriter( new FileOutputStream( f ), model.getModelEncoding() ) );
             writer.write( w, model );
-
             return f;
         }
         catch ( final Exception e )