diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index ad13735ac..2db96f167 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
   <target name="compileTest" depends="compile" description="run unittests">
 	  <javac srcdir="${test}" destdir="${test}"
            debug="true" debuglevel="lines,vars,source"
-           source="${javacSource}" target="${javacTarget}">
+           source="${javacSource}" target="${javacTarget}" encoding="UTF-8">
       <classpath>
         <pathelement location="${build}"/>
         <pathelement location="${htroot}"/>
diff --git a/libt/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar b/libt/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9d5fe16e3
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diff --git a/libt/junit-4.11.jar b/libt/junit-4.11.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aaf744484
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diff --git a/libt/junit-4.7.jar b/libt/junit-4.7.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 700ad6952..000000000
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ad6cd77d8..109e36070 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.7</version>
+            <version>4.11</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
diff --git a/test/net/yacy/document/ParserTest.java b/test/net/yacy/document/ParserTest.java
index aa0dcf161..171022bc8 100644
--- a/test/net/yacy/document/ParserTest.java
+++ b/test/net/yacy/document/ParserTest.java
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 package net.yacy.document;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
-import static org.junit.matchers.JUnitMatchers.containsString;
-
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
@@ -16,7 +13,8 @@ import net.yacy.document.parser.docParser;
 import net.yacy.document.parser.odtParser;
 import net.yacy.document.parser.ooxmlParser;
 import net.yacy.document.parser.pdfParser;
-
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.containsString;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 
@@ -88,7 +86,7 @@ public class ParserTest {
                     } catch (final InterruptedException ex) {}
                     }
 		}
-                
+
         	@Test public void testpdfParsers() throws FileNotFoundException, Parser.Failure, MalformedURLException, UnsupportedEncodingException, IOException	{
 		final String[][] testFiles = new String[][] {
                         // meaning:  filename in test/parsertest, mimetype, title, creator, description,
@@ -110,7 +108,7 @@ public class ParserTest {
                             int c;
                             while( (c = content.read()) != -1 )
                                     str.append((char)c);
-
+                             
                             System.out.println("Parsed " + filename + ": " + str);
                             assertThat(str.toString(), containsString("In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus, dort gibt es Bier in Maßkrügen"));
                             assertThat(doc.dc_title(), containsString(testFile[2]));
diff --git a/test/net/yacy/document/parser/htmlParserTest.java b/test/net/yacy/document/parser/htmlParserTest.java
index beece1948..67c1034ba 100644
--- a/test/net/yacy/document/parser/htmlParserTest.java
+++ b/test/net/yacy/document/parser/htmlParserTest.java
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.List;
-import static junit.framework.Assert.assertEquals;
-import static junit.framework.Assert.assertTrue;
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
 import net.yacy.cora.document.id.AnchorURL;
 import net.yacy.document.Document;