On 18/04/12 16:25, Colin Walters wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> When debugging this, we saw that rpmbuild actually sets LANG=C, >> which disables unicode thus resulting with the error. >> >> 2. Any idea how to disable the LANG setting during rpmbuild? > > This is a tricky issue; from what I can see of a quick read of > the JLS, it says that source files should be Unicode; but that's > not useful here because it doesn't seem to specify the encoding. > > Anyways, if the OpenJDK compiler derives "ASCII" from LANG=C > that's wrong. By default, it should assume input files are UTF-8. > > I guess the Python people made the same braindamaged mistake though =/ > > At worst, since Fedora has a policy that files in general should > be UTF-8 encoded, we could carry a javac patch that assumes UTF-8. > > Some more information here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726174/how-to-compile-a-java-source-file-which-is-encoded-as-utf-8 > Thanks Collin, It actually makes sense since Java works with Unicode by design. Please cc me on the javac bz. -- /d "Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it." --Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
