unable to build trunk (Snapshot version, unicode escape sequence)

[flyingpan]

First I was not able to build because the versions on trunk are still refering to SNAPSHOT versions.

<version.arquillian_warp>1.0.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT</version.arquillian_warp>
<version.arquillian_warp_rest>1.0.0.Final-SNAPSHOT</version.arquillian_warp_rest>

<version.arquillian_warp>1.0.0.Alpha7</version.arquillian_warp>
<version.arquillian_warp_rest>1.0.0.Final</version.arquillian_warp_rest>

Then when calling mvn package I get:

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.16:test (default-test) on project geekseek-domain-core: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.16:test failed: Illegal Unicode escape sequence near index 4
[ERROR] ._\unit._TestCase.*

Seems to be a known issue, is there a fix for it for windows users?
http://transcripts.jboss.org/channel/irc.freenode.org/%23weld-dev/2013/%23weld-dev.2013-09-04.log.html