OSX platform encoding in Maven

By default Maven uses the operating system platform encoding for the build. On OSX this is MacRoman. This leads to warnings that the build is platform dependent:

$ mvn clean package
[INFO] Scanning for projects...


[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding MacRoman, 
i.e. build is platform dependent!

To fix this you just have to add the following profile to your ~/.m2/setting.xml:

		
		   utf8
		   
		     
		       UTF-8
		     
		     
		       UTF-8
		     
		   
		

The activate the utf8 profile with:

	
		utf8
	

When you successfully added the profile you get this fancy info message in your maven builds:

[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.