mvn grails:run-app fails: Unable to start Grails - Conversion Failed

Following the instructions on Grails Maven Integration, I created a new project using the maven archetype.

The archetype completes successfully and after I execute mvn initialize my directory structure has a familiar Grails feel to it along with a pom.xml file. Initially, I encountered dependency errors I was able to work through with the 1.2.2 version of the plugin/grails/archetype that I did not encounter when I tried with the 1.3.2 version. Eventually, I had both builds failing with the same message:

[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Unable to start Grails

Embedded error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
conversion failed

When I use the grails command directly:

grails run-app

I did not encounter this problem, even though the same task was apparently executed here as well:

[native2ascii] Converting 13 files from C:\grails-projects\charfox-app\grails-ap
p\i18n to C:\Documents and Settings\clatimer\.grails\1.3.2\projects\charfox-app\
resources\grails-app\i18n

The output right before the build failed was:

[native2ascii] Converting 12 files from C:\grails-projects\charfox-app\grails-ap
p\i18n to C:\grails-projects\charfox-app\target\resources\grails-app\i18n

After some additional digging and reading through some work a coworker had done, I was able to work around this problem by modifying my grails-app\conf\Config.groovy file and setting grails.enable.native2ascii to false.

// enabled native2ascii conversion of i18n properties files
// grails.enable.native2ascii = true -> *this was the problem*
grails.enable.native2ascii = false

I did not encounter this problem when I used the grails run-app command directly, even though the output indicated that it made the same [native2ascii] call.