Die MacRoman, DIE!!

OSX defaults to MacRoman for an encoding, so if you're using Maven, you might see messages like:

[WARNING] Using platform encoding (MacRoman actually) to copy
filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent

Simple enough, but it can cause you headaches. To change to UTF-8, just add the following properties to your pom.xml:

<properties>
 ...
 <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
 ...
</properties>

(edit: had a couple typos, encoding in the property name needs to start with a capital E - camelCase)