Re: weird warning about invalid UTF-8 characters in java comments ...

Hi,

I get the same with LANG=en_GB.UTF8 but ignored it due to being in
comments. It is possible to set the source code character set for the
java compiler - perhaps this is the solution to remove the warnings.

Hussayn Dabbous wrote:
> Hi, i found following 2 files creating compilation warnings on java
> 1.5 if
> the shell variable LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 :
>
> compile:
>    [javac] Compiling 581 source files to target/scarab/WEB-INF/classes
>    [javac]
> src/java/org/tigris/scarab/om/GlobalParameterManager.java:66: warning:
> unmappable character for encoding UTF8
>    [javac]  * @author <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Ronny
> V�lker</a>
>    [javac]                                                           ^
>    [javac]
> src/java/org/tigris/scarab/services/cache/JCSScarabCacheService.java:24:
> warning: unmappable character for encoding UTF8
>    [javac]  * @author <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Ronny
> V�lker</a>
>    [javac]                                                            ^
>
> The effect disappears, when i change the shell variable LANG=de_DE
>
> I am not sure, why java complains about characterset-problems within
> comments. I have never seen this.
> But ok, maybe Ronny agrees in replacing his name by "Ronny Voelker" so
> the warnings don't appear ?
> And we agree on using utf-8 character set only in the java sources ?
>
> hmm... as i said, this is weird and i would say, that' can't be, if i
> wouldn't have seen the effect with my
> own eyes. Am i too picky ? But i am fan of the principle "No message
> is good message" at least during
> compilation ;-) ...
>
> regards,
> hussayn
>

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