How to configure encoding in Maven?

When I run maven install on my multi module maven project I always get the following output:

[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding UTF-8, i.e. build is platform dependent!

So, I googled around a bit, but all I can find is that I have to add:

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>

…to my pom.xml. But it’s already there (in the parent pom.xml).

Configuring <encoding> for the maven-resources-plugin or the maven-compiler-plugin also doesn’t fix it.

So what’s the problem?

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