tasks.withType(JavaCompile).configureEach {
    // ensure that the encoding is set to UTF-8, no matter what the system default is
    // this fixes some edge cases with special characters not displaying correctly
    // see http://yodaconditions.net/blog/fix-for-java-file-encoding-problems-with-gradle.html
    // If Javadoc is generated, this must be specified in that task too.
    it.options.encoding = "UTF-8"

    // The Minecraft launcher currently installs Java 8 for users, so your mod probably wants to target Java 8 too
    // JDK 9 introduced a new way of specifying this that will make sure no newer classes or methods are used.
    // We'll use that if it's available, but otherwise we'll use the older option.
    def targetVersion = 17
    if (JavaVersion.current().isJava9Compatible()) {
        it.options.release = targetVersion
    }
}