Blackdown and Generics

Hello,

I've searched for quite a long time for answers using the archive, but 
haven't found any actual reference. So that's why I'm posting the question 
here.

The problem is: At our customers site, a debian-linux-server is used as 
main development environment for versioning system, automatic builds and 
so on. They are using BlackDown Java 1.4.2-rc1.

Now we introduced Java Generics to our sources (using 
http://java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/adding_generics/), and we wanted 
to build the sources using the appropriate bootclasspath. It works perfect 
with Suns Java SDK both on Linux and Windows. The EA-generics are 
integrated using the bootclasspath (as stated at the URL above).

But, on debian using BlackDown, we are getting a lot of compiler errors at 
every unusual string character (E.g. copyright mark, or question mark):

unmappable character for encoding ASCII

Now I wanted to ask you:
is this a known problem?
is there any chance to get generics up and running with BlackDown JDK?


Hope you can help me on this.



Best Regards

Christopher Semturs
[email protected]