[Yanel-dev] javac encoding

Michael Wechner michael.wechner at wyona.com
Mon Aug 24 13:53:31 CEST 2009


Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
> 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?

in a project resource which uses german special characters
>
>
>>
>> <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! ;)

agreed
>
>
>> Please let me know if there are any problems with this property
>
> None so far, and all of this is fine from my POV.

thanks for the feedback

Michi



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