does this mean maven actually never worked fro japanese or chinese developers?
It depends: As long as one sticks to US-ASCII when editing source files and uses a platform encoding that has US-ASCII as a subset (UTF-8, Latin-X, ...), you won't notice Maven's misbehavior. Also, using Non-ASCII characters could work if all development machines use the same default encoding (preferably UTF-8 for best harmony with the XML readers/writers).
The encoding issue is really subtle because it only shows up in certain/rare situations. That's why I suggest to configure the CI machines to UTF-16 some day in the future such that at least some tests run in an edge-case environment.
Benjamin
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