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

Hi,

Yeah. Good point. If maintenance of scarab is done in eclipse (or
similar) ensuring sources are in UTF-8 is not a problem regardless of
platform. However, if not then you are pretty much relying on good
nature to ensure the character set is maintained by the developer who
edits the file and the quality of the tools used. UTF8 really is the
only character set that is truly universal and will ensure the comments
and other strings are as intended - I personally opt for UTF-8 sources,
but ASCII is probably more compatible across UTF8 and cp1252 etc,
although I suspect ASCII would result in more of the same.

Regards,
Barry

hussayn wrote:
>
> cwnet wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>
>>     
>
> What would happen, if somebody else would add yet another character set ?
> UTF-8 here, ISO-LATIN there, chinese ....  It just can happen. But it can
> not
> be cured by setting compiler options.
>
> The only simple solution i see, is to self restrict ourself to one
> characterset in the java-sources.
>
> Either we make it simple and stick to the ASCII characterset, which wirked
> for ages,
> or we make it a little bit more complex and stick with UTF-8 (IMHO the best
> choice we have nowadays).
>
> In the latter case we might also want to configure maven/ant compile steps
> so that utf-8 is 
> guaranteed to be used... 
>
> I personally would opt for the simples solution (use ASCII)...
>
> Any complains ?
>   

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