[fedora-java] Maven error log due to UTF8 during make rpm

[Doron Fediuck]

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.

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