mpue/blackboard

Wrong character encoding can prevent compilation

and1g opened this issue · 4 comments

and1g commented

At least with Linux, when the system locale is not set to UTF-8, compilation with ant may fail with several of these error messages:

    [javac] /build/blackboard/src/blackboard_git/src/org/pmedv/core/util/StringUtil.java:229: error: unmappable character for encoding ASCII
    [javac]             text = text.replaceAll("??", "ae");

Setting the encoding to UTF-8 in build.xml will fix this issue.

Patch file: https://gist.github.com/and1g/6205536

and1g commented

Thanks for the commit, but the issue still exists but with an other file I missed on sunday. This is the whole build log:

Buildfile: /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/build.xml

init:
    [mkdir] Created dir: /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/build
    [mkdir] Created dir: /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/build/jar

compile:
    [javac] /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/build.xml:27: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds
    [javac] Compiling 1099 source files to /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/build/jar
    [javac] /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/src/org/pmedv/core/util/URLUTF8Encoder.java:37: error: unmappable character for encoding ASCII
    [javac]  * Copyright ?? 1997 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts
    [javac]              ^
    [javac] /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/src/org/pmedv/core/util/URLUTF8Encoder.java:37: error: unmappable character for encoding ASCII
    [javac]  * Copyright ?? 1997 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts
    [javac]               ^
    [javac] /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/src/org/pmedv/core/util/URLUTF8Encoder.java:40: error: unmappable character for encoding ASCII
    [javac]  * This work is distributed under the W3C?? Software License [1] in the
    [javac]                                          ^
    [javac] /build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/src/org/pmedv/core/util/URLUTF8Encoder.java:40: error: unmappable character for encoding ASCII
    [javac]  * This work is distributed under the W3C?? Software License [1] in the
    [javac]                                           ^
    [javac] 4 errors

BUILD FAILED
/build/blackboard-git/src/blackboard_git/build.xml:27: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

Total time: 4 seconds

src/org/pmedv/core/util/URLUTF8Encoder.java has UTF-8 characters in the license description.

mpue commented

Should work now.

and1g commented

Still getting an error message for the ®-sign in line 40 but this should be the last issue. Thanks for the effort!

mpue commented

removed URLUTF8Encoder.java completely, since it is not used anyway. Should be fixed now