On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Deepak Bhole <dbhole@redhat.com> wrote:

This is expected behaviour with Java 7. Until Java 6, encoding errors
were only presented as warnings. Now they are errors:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html

"This is the default value. No language changes were introduced in Java
SE 6. However, encoding errors in source files are now reported as
errors, instead of warnings, as previously."

You can get around it by specifying -source 1.6, but fixing the source
is a better fix IMO.