diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 92ebaed..82e10c6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>maven-filtering</artifactId>
-  <version>3.1.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>3.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
   <name>Apache Maven Filtering</name>
   <description>A component to assist in filtering of resource files with properties from a Maven project.</description>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.java
index ab73c41..a3d8a81 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.java
@@ -230,9 +230,14 @@ public void filterResources( MavenResourcesExecution mavenResourcesExecution )
                 boolean filteredExt =
                     filteredFileExtension( source.getName(), mavenResourcesExecution.getNonFilteredFileExtensions() );
 
+                // Determine which encoding to use when filtering this file
+                String encoding = getEncoding( source, mavenResourcesExecution.getEncoding(),
+                                               mavenResourcesExecution.getPropertiesEncoding() );
+                getLogger().debug( "Using '" + encoding + "' encoding to copy filtered resource '"
+                                       + source.getName() + "'." );
                 mavenFileFilter.copyFile( source, destinationFile, resource.isFiltering() && filteredExt,
                                           mavenResourcesExecution.getFilterWrappers(),
-                                          mavenResourcesExecution.getEncoding(),
+                                          encoding,
                                           mavenResourcesExecution.isOverwrite() );
             }
 
@@ -259,6 +264,49 @@ public void filterResources( MavenResourcesExecution mavenResourcesExecution )
 
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Get the encoding to use when filtering the specified file. Properties files can be configured to use a different
+     * encoding than regular files.
+     *
+     * @param file The file to check
+     * @param encoding The encoding to use for regular files
+     * @param propertiesEncoding The encoding to use for properties files
+     * @return The encoding to use when filtering the specified file
+     * @since 3.2.0
+     */
+    static String getEncoding( File file, String encoding, String propertiesEncoding )
+    {
+        if ( isPropertiesFile( file ) )
+        {
+            if ( propertiesEncoding == null )
+            {
+                // Since propertiesEncoding is a new feature, not all plugins will have implemented support for it.
+                // These plugins will have propertiesEncoding set to null.
+                return encoding;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                return propertiesEncoding;
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            return encoding;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determine whether a file is a properties file or not.
+     *
+     * @param file The file to check
+     * @return <code>true</code> if the file name has an extension of "properties", otherwise <code>false</code>
+     * @since 3.2.0
+     */
+    static boolean isPropertiesFile( File file )
+    {
+        return "properties".equals( StringUtils.lowerCase( FileUtils.extension( file.getName() ) ) );
+    }
+
     private void handleDefaultFilterWrappers( MavenResourcesExecution mavenResourcesExecution )
         throws MavenFilteringException
     {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/MavenResourcesExecution.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/MavenResourcesExecution.java
index 71a2fcf..6d68126 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/MavenResourcesExecution.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/MavenResourcesExecution.java
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ public class MavenResourcesExecution
 
     private String encoding;
 
+    /**
+     * @since 3.2.0
+     */
+    private String propertiesEncoding;
+
     /**
      * By default files like {@code .gitignore}, {@code .cvsignore} etc. are excluded which means they will not being
      * copied. If you need them for a particular reason you can do that by settings this to {@code false}. This means
@@ -183,6 +188,28 @@ public void setEncoding( String encoding )
         this.encoding = encoding;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Return the encoding of properties files.
+     *
+     * @return Current encoding of properties files.
+     * @since 3.2.0
+     */
+    public String getPropertiesEncoding()
+    {
+        return propertiesEncoding;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Set the value for encoding of properties files.
+     *
+     * @param propertiesEncoding Give the new value for encoding of properties files.
+     * @since 3.2.0
+     */
+    public void setPropertiesEncoding( String propertiesEncoding )
+    {
+        this.propertiesEncoding = propertiesEncoding;
+    }
+
     /**
      * @return List of {@link org.apache.maven.model.Resource}
      */
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/DefaultMavenResourcesFilteringTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/DefaultMavenResourcesFilteringTest.java
index 71dfe5a..253634a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/DefaultMavenResourcesFilteringTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/DefaultMavenResourcesFilteringTest.java
@@ -975,4 +975,68 @@ Collections.<String> emptyList(), Collections.<String> emptyList(),
         assertEquals( "1.0.txt", files[0].getName() );
     }
 
+    /**
+     * MRESOURCES-171: Use correct encoding when filtering properties-files
+     */
+    public void testFilterPropertiesFiles()
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        File baseDir = new File( "/foo/bar" );
+        StubMavenProject mavenProject = new StubMavenProject( baseDir );
+        mavenProject.setVersion( "1.0" );
+        mavenProject.setGroupId( "org.apache" );
+        mavenProject.setName( "test project" );
+
+        MavenResourcesFiltering mavenResourcesFiltering = lookup( MavenResourcesFiltering.class );
+
+        String unitFilesDir = getBasedir() + "/src/test/units-files/MRESOURCES-171";
+
+        Resource resource = new Resource();
+        resource.setDirectory( unitFilesDir );
+        resource.setFiltering( true );
+        resource.setTargetPath( "testFilterPropertiesFiles" );
+
+        MavenResourcesExecution mavenResourcesExecution =
+            new MavenResourcesExecution( Collections.singletonList( resource ), outputDirectory, mavenProject, "UTF-8",
+                                         Collections.<String> emptyList(), Collections.<String> emptyList(),
+                                         new StubMavenSession() );
+        mavenResourcesExecution.setPropertiesEncoding( "ISO-8859-1" );
+        mavenResourcesFiltering.filterResources( mavenResourcesExecution );
+
+        File targetPathFile = new File( outputDirectory, "testFilterPropertiesFiles" );
+        assertTrue( FileUtils.contentEquals( new File( unitFilesDir, "test.properties" ),
+                                             new File( targetPathFile, "test.properties" ) ) );
+        assertTrue( FileUtils.contentEquals( new File( unitFilesDir, "test.txt" ),
+                                             new File( targetPathFile, "test.txt" ) ) );
+    }
+
+    public void testGetEncoding()
+    {
+        String ISO88591 = "ISO-8859-1";
+        String UTF8 = "UTF-8";
+        File propertiesFile = new File( "file.properties" );
+        File regularFile = new File( "file.xml" );
+
+        // Properties files
+        assertEquals( null, DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.getEncoding( propertiesFile, null, null ) );
+        assertEquals( UTF8, DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.getEncoding( propertiesFile, "UTF-8", null ) );
+        assertEquals( ISO88591, DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.getEncoding( propertiesFile, "UTF-8", ISO88591 ) );
+        // Regular files
+        assertEquals( null, DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.getEncoding( regularFile, null, null ) );
+        assertEquals( UTF8, DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.getEncoding( regularFile, "UTF-8", null ) );
+        assertEquals( UTF8, DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.getEncoding( regularFile, "UTF-8", ISO88591 ) );
+    }
+
+    public void testIsPropertiesFile()
+    {
+        // Properties files
+        assertTrue( DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.isPropertiesFile( new File( "file.properties" ) ) );
+        assertTrue( DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.isPropertiesFile( new File( "some/parent/path",
+                                                                               "file.properties" ) ) );
+        // Regular files
+        assertFalse( DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.isPropertiesFile( new File( "file" ) ) );
+        assertFalse( DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.isPropertiesFile( new File( "some/parent/path", "file" ) ) );
+        assertFalse( DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.isPropertiesFile( new File( "file.xml" ) ) );
+        assertFalse( DefaultMavenResourcesFiltering.isPropertiesFile( new File( "some/parent/path", "file.xml" ) ) );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/units-files/MRESOURCES-171/test.properties b/src/test/units-files/MRESOURCES-171/test.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7cc2b46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/units-files/MRESOURCES-171/test.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+actual=No hay conexión
+expected=No hay conexi\u00f3n
diff --git a/src/test/units-files/MRESOURCES-171/test.txt b/src/test/units-files/MRESOURCES-171/test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..281e65c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/units-files/MRESOURCES-171/test.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+Some text encoded in UTF-8 containing non-ascii characters conexión.