diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml b/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
index 9ba7252..c52dcfe 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
   <properties>
     <doxiaVersion>1.0-alpha-10</doxiaVersion>
     <doxia-sitetoolsVersion>1.0-alpha-10</doxia-sitetoolsVersion>
-    <pluginToolsVersion>[2.5-SNAPSHOT,)</pluginToolsVersion>
+    <pluginToolsVersion>2.5-SNAPSHOT</pluginToolsVersion>
   </properties>
 
   <!-- Copy from project up -->
diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/plugin/AbstractGeneratorMojo.java b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/plugin/AbstractGeneratorMojo.java
index 88bef11..f3d0a3e 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/plugin/AbstractGeneratorMojo.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/plugin/AbstractGeneratorMojo.java
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ public abstract class AbstractGeneratorMojo
      */
     protected MojoScanner mojoScanner;
 
+    /**
+     * The file encoding of the source files.
+     * 
+     * @parameter expression="${encoding}" default-value="ISO-8859-1"
+     * @since 2.5
+     */
+    protected String encoding;
+
     /**
      * The goal prefix that will appear before the ":".
      *
@@ -147,7 +155,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractGeneratorMojo
         {
             pluginDescriptor.setDependencies( PluginUtils.toComponentDependencies( project.getRuntimeDependencies() ) );
             
-            PluginToolsRequest request = new DefaultPluginToolsRequest( project, pluginDescriptor );
+            PluginToolsRequest request = new DefaultPluginToolsRequest( project, pluginDescriptor ).setEncoding( encoding );
 
             mojoScanner.populatePluginDescriptor( request );
 
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/DefaultPluginToolsRequest.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/DefaultPluginToolsRequest.java
index dc58598..ba7ef43 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/DefaultPluginToolsRequest.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/DefaultPluginToolsRequest.java
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.PluginDescriptor;
 import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
 
 /**
- * Default implementation of {@link PluginToolsRequest}, which is used to pass parameters to components
- * used to extract {@link MojoDescriptor} instances from different types of metadata for a given
- * plugin.
+ * Default implementation of {@link PluginToolsRequest}, which is used to pass parameters to components used to extract
+ * {@link MojoDescriptor} instances from different types of metadata for a given plugin.
  * 
  * @author jdcasey
  */
@@ -16,8 +15,11 @@ public class DefaultPluginToolsRequest
 {
 
     private PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor;
+
     private MavenProject project;
-    
+
+    private String encoding = "ISO-8859-1";
+
     public DefaultPluginToolsRequest( MavenProject project, PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor )
     {
         this.project = project;
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ public class DefaultPluginToolsRequest
     {
         return pluginDescriptor;
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * {@inheritDoc}
      */
@@ -40,4 +42,26 @@ public class DefaultPluginToolsRequest
         return project;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    public String getEncoding()
+    {
+        return this.encoding;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    public PluginToolsRequest setEncoding( String encoding )
+    {
+        if ( encoding == null )
+        {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException( "unspecified source file encoding" );
+        }
+        this.encoding = encoding;
+        
+        return this;
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/PluginToolsRequest.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/PluginToolsRequest.java
index d385e5a..f35fb40 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/PluginToolsRequest.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/PluginToolsRequest.java
@@ -24,4 +24,16 @@ public interface PluginToolsRequest
      */
     PluginDescriptor getPluginDescriptor();
 
+    /**
+     * Gets the file encoding of the source files.
+     * 
+     * @return The file encoding of the source files, never <code>null</code>.
+     */
+    public String getEncoding();
+
+    /**
+     * @see PluginToolsRequest#getEncoding()
+     */
+    public PluginToolsRequest setEncoding( String encoding );
+
 }
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/AbstractScriptedMojoDescriptorExtractor.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/AbstractScriptedMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
index f914fff..0229152 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/AbstractScriptedMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/AbstractScriptedMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
@@ -238,4 +238,4 @@ public abstract class AbstractScriptedMojoDescriptorExtractor
      */
     protected abstract String getScriptFileExtension( PluginToolsRequest request );
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/MojoDescriptorExtractor.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/MojoDescriptorExtractor.java
index fddbf81..1eba4f4 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/MojoDescriptorExtractor.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/MojoDescriptorExtractor.java
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ public interface MojoDescriptorExtractor
      * @return a list of mojo descriptors.
      * @throws ExtractionException if any
      * @throws InvalidPluginDescriptorException if any
+     * @since 2.5
      */
     List execute( PluginToolsRequest request )
         throws ExtractionException, InvalidPluginDescriptorException;
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/DefaultMojoScanner.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/DefaultMojoScanner.java
index dc77c64..e28911c 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/DefaultMojoScanner.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/DefaultMojoScanner.java
@@ -184,4 +184,5 @@ public class DefaultMojoScanner
             }
         }
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+
+}
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/MojoScanner.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/MojoScanner.java
index a4f7146..d50ea98 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/MojoScanner.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/MojoScanner.java
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ public interface MojoScanner
      * @param pluginDescriptor not null
      * @throws ExtractionException if any
      * @throws InvalidPluginDescriptorException if any
+     * @since 2.5
      */
     void populatePluginDescriptor( PluginToolsRequest request )
         throws ExtractionException, InvalidPluginDescriptorException;
@@ -68,4 +69,4 @@ public interface MojoScanner
      */
     void setActiveExtractors( Set/* <String> */extractors );
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/ScannerTestExtractor.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/ScannerTestExtractor.java
index b5b56fe..85b72c1 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/ScannerTestExtractor.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/ScannerTestExtractor.java
@@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ public class ScannerTestExtractor
             return Collections.singletonList( desc );
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/TestExtractor.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/TestExtractor.java
index 58faa83..daeca11 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/TestExtractor.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/TestExtractor.java
@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@ public class TestExtractor
         return Collections.singletonList( desc );
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/beanshell/BeanshellMojoDescriptorExtractor.java b/maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/beanshell/BeanshellMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
index bc22c13..9131002 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/beanshell/BeanshellMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/beanshell/BeanshellMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
@@ -19,11 +19,8 @@ package org.apache.maven.tools.plugin.extractor.beanshell;
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import bsh.EvalError;
-import bsh.Interpreter;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.InvalidPluginDescriptorException;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.MojoDescriptor;
-import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.PluginDescriptor;
 import org.apache.maven.tools.plugin.PluginToolsRequest;
 import org.apache.maven.tools.plugin.extractor.AbstractScriptedMojoDescriptorExtractor;
 import org.apache.maven.tools.plugin.extractor.ExtractionException;
@@ -37,6 +34,9 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
+import bsh.EvalError;
+import bsh.Interpreter;
+
 /**
  * Extracts Mojo descriptors from <a href="http://www.beanshell.org/">BeanShell</a> sources.
  *
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public class BeanshellMojoDescriptorExtractor
 
                 relativePath = relativePath.replace( '\\', '/' );
 
-                MojoDescriptor mojoDescriptor = createMojoDescriptor( basedir, relativePath, request.getPluginDescriptor() );
+                MojoDescriptor mojoDescriptor = createMojoDescriptor( basedir, relativePath, request );
                 descriptors.add( mojoDescriptor );
             }
         }
@@ -98,11 +98,11 @@ public class BeanshellMojoDescriptorExtractor
      * @return a new Mojo descriptor instance
      * @throws InvalidPluginDescriptorException if any
      */
-    private MojoDescriptor createMojoDescriptor( String basedir, String resource, PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor )
+    private MojoDescriptor createMojoDescriptor( String basedir, String resource, PluginToolsRequest request )
         throws InvalidPluginDescriptorException
     {
         MojoDescriptor mojoDescriptor = new MojoDescriptor();
-        mojoDescriptor.setPluginDescriptor( pluginDescriptor );
+        mojoDescriptor.setPluginDescriptor( request.getPluginDescriptor() );
 
         mojoDescriptor.setLanguage( "bsh" );
         mojoDescriptor.setComponentConfigurator( "bsh" );
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ public class BeanshellMojoDescriptorExtractor
 
             interpreter.set( "mojoDescriptor", mojoDescriptor );
 
-            interpreter.eval( new InputStreamReader( getClass().getResourceAsStream( "/extractor.bsh" ), "UTF-8" ) );
+            interpreter.eval( new InputStreamReader( getClass().getResourceAsStream( "/extractor.bsh" ), request.getEncoding() ) );
         }
         catch ( EvalError evalError )
         {
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/src/main/resources/extractor.bsh b/maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/src/main/resources/extractor.bsh
index 380c6b2..b90c29f 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/src/main/resources/extractor.bsh
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/src/main/resources/extractor.bsh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import bsh.*;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
-import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.Parameter;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.InvalidPluginDescriptorException;
@@ -120,9 +121,9 @@ getDescription( text )
     }
 }
 
-extract( file, mojoDescriptor )
+extract( file, encoding, mojoDescriptor )
 {
-    this.parser = new Parser( new FileReader( file ) );
+    this.parser = new Parser( new InputStreamReader( new FileInputStream( file ), encoding ) );
     parser.setRetainComments( true );
 
     this.lastNode = null;
@@ -219,4 +220,4 @@ extract( file, mojoDescriptor )
     }
 }
 
-extract( file, mojoDescriptor );
+extract( file, encoding, mojoDescriptor );
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-java/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/java/JavaMojoDescriptorExtractor.java b/maven-plugin-tools-java/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/java/JavaMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
index d82770e..0ee6d0e 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-java/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/java/JavaMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-java/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/java/JavaMojoDescriptorExtractor.java
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ public class JavaMojoDescriptorExtractor
     public List execute( PluginToolsRequest request )
         throws ExtractionException, InvalidPluginDescriptorException
     {
-        JavaClass[] javaClasses = discoverClasses( request.getProject() );
+        JavaClass[] javaClasses = discoverClasses( request );
 
         List descriptors = new ArrayList();
 
@@ -614,11 +614,15 @@ public class JavaMojoDescriptorExtractor
 
     /**
      * @param project not null
+     * @param encoding The file encoding of the source files, must not be <code>null</code>.
      * @return an array of java class
      */
-    protected JavaClass[] discoverClasses( final MavenProject project )
+    protected JavaClass[] discoverClasses( final PluginToolsRequest request )
     {
         JavaDocBuilder builder = new JavaDocBuilder();
+        builder.setEncoding( request.getEncoding() );
+        
+        MavenProject project = request.getProject();
 
         for ( Iterator i = project.getCompileSourceRoots().iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
         {
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-java/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/java/JavaMojoDescriptorExtractorTest.java b/maven-plugin-tools-java/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/java/JavaMojoDescriptorExtractorTest.java
index 32ae8b8..9b9774a 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-java/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/java/JavaMojoDescriptorExtractorTest.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-java/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/java/JavaMojoDescriptorExtractorTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.MojoDescriptor;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.Parameter;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.PluginDescriptor;
 import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
+import org.apache.maven.tools.plugin.DefaultPluginToolsRequest;
+import org.apache.maven.tools.plugin.PluginToolsRequest;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
@@ -59,7 +61,11 @@ public class JavaMojoDescriptorExtractorTest
 
         PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor = new PluginDescriptor();
         pluginDescriptor.setGoalPrefix( "test" );
-        List results = extractor.execute( project, pluginDescriptor );
+        
+        PluginToolsRequest request = new DefaultPluginToolsRequest( project, pluginDescriptor );
+        
+        List results = extractor.execute( request );
+        
         assertEquals( "Extracted mojos", 2, results.size() );
 
         for ( int i = 0; i < 2; i++ )
@@ -92,7 +98,10 @@ public class JavaMojoDescriptorExtractorTest
 
         PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor = new PluginDescriptor();
         pluginDescriptor.setGoalPrefix( "test" );
-        List results = extractor.execute( project, pluginDescriptor );
+        
+        PluginToolsRequest request = new DefaultPluginToolsRequest( project, pluginDescriptor );
+        
+        List results = extractor.execute( request );
         assertEquals( 1, results.size() );
 
         MojoDescriptor mojoDescriptor = (MojoDescriptor) results.get( 0 );
@@ -156,7 +165,10 @@ public class JavaMojoDescriptorExtractorTest
     
         PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor = new PluginDescriptor();
         pluginDescriptor.setGoalPrefix( "test" );
-        List results = extractor.execute( project, pluginDescriptor );
+        
+        PluginToolsRequest request = new DefaultPluginToolsRequest( project, pluginDescriptor );
+        
+        List results = extractor.execute( request );
         assertEquals( 0, results.size() );
     
     }
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index caa829e..950839d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
   </distributionManagement>
 
   <properties>
-    <pluginToolsVersion>[2.5-SNAPSHOT,)</pluginToolsVersion>
+    <pluginToolsVersion>2.5-SNAPSHOT</pluginToolsVersion>
     <pluginTestingHarnessVersion>1.2</pluginTestingHarnessVersion>
   </properties>