------- Additional Comments From ovidr at users dot sourceforge dot net
2004-12-15 04:59 -------
It isn't a compiling problem that I'm trying to illustrate. TestD.java
(included above) has a line: String s = "<high ascii chars>" characters. If
these characters were received over a network connection as a byte stream, they
would still be converted to a string via the "new String(byte[])" method, which
is used in TestD.java.
They would then be turned into a String, and displayed, as in the screenshot
attached above. gcj doesn't seem to convert the characters properly (not in the
same was a sun's java anyway). The testcase and screenshot hopefully
communicate what I mean.
Anyway, compiling to bytecode is separate issue:
gcc version 4.0.0 20041213 (experimental)
gcj -C --encoding=UTF-8 TestD.java
TestD.java:12: error: malformed UTF-8 character.
String s = "░ñâRÇÇNÇåñ░";
gcj -C --encoding=ISO-8859-1 TestD.java
TestD.java:1: fatal error: unknown encoding: 'ISO-8859-1'
This might mean that your locale's encoding is not supported
by your system's iconv(3) implementation. If you aren't trying
to use a particular encoding for your input file, try the
'--encoding=UTF-8' option
compilation terminated.
I have mingw msys iconv (GNU libiconv 1.8) on my system.
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14670
