Globally define maven project encoding

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I'm on windows a lot of the time and usually forget to do this so I'm constantly getting warnings about how my project encoding hasn't been set. Is there a way I can globally define this (maybe in settings.xml?) or not?

Not in settings. Pleys put it in a company pom and inherit from there. — khmarbaise
– khmarbaise, Commented Dec 27, 2014 at 15:19

M A · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-27 14:58:47Z

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You can try setting the encoding property in a profile that is activated in the settings:

<settings>
   [...]
   <profiles>
      <profile>
         <id>inject-project-encoding</id>
         <properties>
            <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         </properties>
      </profile>
  </profiles>

  <activeProfiles>
      <activeProfile>inject-project-encoding</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
</settings>

answered Dec 27, 2014 at 14:58

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csh Over a year ago

Is it possible to only define an OS family for profile activation? Given that I only need this on Windows systems, or will I have to define each Windows OS I use?

khmarbaise Over a year ago

Don't do that. Best is to define such things in a company pom and inherit from there but not from settings. Cause everyone can have a different settings.xml on it's machine.

csh Over a year ago

All the computers belong to me and I keep the settings.xml synced across my computers because of things like sonatype deployment settings, does that change anything?

M A Over a year ago

@Albion See this link for how to use and activate profiles.

csh Over a year ago

I've looked at that. I asked if it was possible to ONLY define the OS family whereas Apache's examples define the entire OS.

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