upgrade to maven-release-plugin 2.4.1 and use LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f7d2e74..82da43a 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -207,9 +207,8 @@
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
- <!-- we have to stick to this version unti the below issue is resolved -->
- <!-- see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-695 -->
- <version>2.1</version>
+ <!-- see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-812 -->
+ <version>2.4.1</version>
<configuration>
<localCheckout>true</localCheckout>
<pushChanges>false</pushChanges>