[Yanel-dev] javac encoding

Guillaume Déflache guillaume.deflache at wyona.com
Mon Aug 24 11:38:25 CEST 2009


Michael Wechner schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> I have set a property javac.encoding within src/build/build.properties, 
> because according to various web-pages, Mac OS X uses MacRoman
> and hence certain special characters within Java class files won't be 
> properly displayed, but now with

Strange that this happens in Yanel source code itself (or maybe it's in 
a project?), as in Java files all our (javadoc) comments and identifiers 
should be in English, and AFAIK MacRoman "extends" US-ASCII: which 
characters did it occur with?


> 
> <javac
>    encoding="UTF-8"
> />
> 
> this seems to be fine.
> 
> Of course this needs to be done for all javac ant tasks (resources and 
> realms).

Another good compelling reason to use importing Ant build files then! ;)


> Please let me know if there are any problems with this property

None so far, and all of this is fine from my POV.


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