diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c75e12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+name: Publish to the Maven Central
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [released]
+
+jobs:
+  build-gradle-project:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    env:
+      GRADLE_OPTS: "-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m"
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout source repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Set up JDK
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
+        with:
+          distribution: 'temurin'
+          java-version: 17
+
+      - name: Grant execute permission for gradlew
+        run: chmod +x gradlew
+
+      - name: Publish with Gradle
+        uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
+        env:
+          SONATYPE_USER: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_USER}}
+          SONATYPE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_PASSWORD }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingKey: ${{ secrets.ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingKey }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingPassword: ${{ secrets.ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingPassword }}
+        with:
+          arguments: publish --stacktrace
diff --git a/lib/build.gradle.kts b/lib/build.gradle.kts
index 99c03bc..77c19a3 100644
--- a/lib/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/lib/build.gradle.kts
@@ -3,10 +3,15 @@ import org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.logging.TestLogEvent
 
 plugins {
     `java-library`
+    `maven-publish`
     pmd
+    signing
     id("com.github.ben-manes.versions") version "0.46.0"
 }
 
+val rifeVersion by rootProject.extra { "1.5.0-SNAPSHOT" }
+
+group = "com.uwyn.rife2"
 version = "0.9.0-SNAPSHOT"
 
 repositories {
@@ -16,10 +21,10 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    implementation("com.uwyn.rife2:rife2:1.5.0-SNAPSHOT") {
+    implementation("com.uwyn.rife2:rife2:${rifeVersion}") {
         this.isChanging = true
     }
-    runtimeOnly("com.uwyn.rife2:rife2:1.5.0-SNAPSHOT:agent") {
+    runtimeOnly("com.uwyn.rife2:rife2:${rifeVersion}:agent") {
         this.isChanging = true
     }
 
@@ -50,6 +55,10 @@ pmd {
 
 
 tasks {
+    withType<JavaCompile> {
+        options.encoding = "UTF-8"
+    }
+
     test {
         useJUnitPlatform()
         testLogging {
@@ -57,4 +66,71 @@ tasks {
             events = setOf(TestLogEvent.PASSED, TestLogEvent.SKIPPED, TestLogEvent.FAILED)
         }
     }
+
+     javadoc {
+        title = "<a href=\"https://rife2.com\">RIFE2</a> Template Renderers"
+        options {
+            this as StandardJavadocDocletOptions
+            keyWords(true)
+            splitIndex(true)
+            links()
+        }
+    }
 }
+
+publishing {
+    publications {
+        create<MavenPublication>("mavenJava") {
+            artifactId = "rife2-renderers"
+            from(components["java"])
+            pom {
+                name.set("RIFE2 Template Renderers")
+                description.set("Template Renderers for the RIFE2 framework")
+                url.set("https://github.com/rife2/rife2-template-renderers")
+                licenses {
+                    license {
+                        name.set("The Apache License, Version 2.0")
+                        url.set("http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt")
+                    }
+                }
+                developers {
+                    developer {
+                        id.set("ethauvin")
+                        name.set("Erik C. Thauvin")
+                        email.set("erik@thauvin.net")
+                        url.set("https://erik.thauvin.net/")
+                    }
+                    developer {
+                        id.set("gbevin")
+                        name.set("Geert Bevin")
+                        email.set("gbevin@uwyn.com")
+                        url.set("https://github.com/gbevin")
+                    }
+                }
+                scm {
+                    connection.set("scm:git:https://github.com/rife2/rife2-template-renderers.git")
+                    developerConnection.set("scm:git:git@github.com:rife2/rife2-template-renderers.git")
+                    url.set("https://github.com/rife2/rife2-template-renderers")
+                }
+            }
+            repositories {
+                maven {
+                    credentials {
+                        username = System.getenv("SONATYPE_USER")
+                        password = System.getenv("SONATYPE_PASSWORD")
+                    }
+                    val releasesRepoUrl = uri("https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/")
+                    val snapshotsRepoUrl = uri("https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/")
+                    url = if (version.toString().endsWith("SNAPSHOT")) snapshotsRepoUrl else releasesRepoUrl
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+signing {
+    val signingKey: String? by project // ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingKey
+    val signingPassword: String? by project // ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingPassword
+    useInMemoryPgpKeys(signingKey, signingPassword)
+    sign(publishing.publications["mavenJava"])
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/src/main/java/rife/render/RenderUtils.java b/lib/src/main/java/rife/render/RenderUtils.java
index d08f0b5..c2063fb 100644
--- a/lib/src/main/java/rife/render/RenderUtils.java
+++ b/lib/src/main/java/rife/render/RenderUtils.java
@@ -174,9 +174,10 @@ public final class RenderUtils {
             return src;
         }
 
-        // https://stackoverflow.com/a/6766497/8356718
         var len = src.length();
         var sb = new StringBuilder(len * 6);
+
+        // https://stackoverflow.com/a/6766497/8356718
         for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
             var codePoint = src.codePointAt(i);
             // Skip over the second char in a surrogate pair