diff --git a/webconsole/pom.xml b/webconsole/pom.xml
index 66c3e47..9d6d944 100644
--- a/webconsole/pom.xml
+++ b/webconsole/pom.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,23 @@
 
     <build>
         <plugins>
+            <!-- translate UTF-8 encoded properties files to ISO-8859-1 -->
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>native2ascii-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.0-alpha-1</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>native2ascii</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>