Build errors on OS/X French

[Michael Hall]

On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:

>>> Users/henri/Documents/hudson/data/jobs/openjdk-1.7-macosx-universal/workspace/build/macosx-universal/corba/gensrc/org/omg/PortableServer/AdapterActivator.java:8:
>>> unmappable character for encoding ascii
>>> * mercredi 2 f?vrier 2011 11 h 39 CET
>> 
>> Looking at the source this appears to be a automatically generated date/time stamp in a comment.
>> This...
>> 
>> Re: Hudson Related Error : unmappable...
>> http://markmail.org/message/abvyvkzphiuqyxym
>> 
>> suggests it might be associated with the LANG env variable.
>> Mine default shows...
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> 
>> I'm still not sure why your build is showing the error as ascii and not some kind of UTF-8 which would be happy with most of the common language diacriticals wouldn't it?
> 
> By default on French OS/X, lang is fr_FR.UTF-8
> 
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> 
> BTW, in french we have accentued chars like é,è,à and this appear in
> date string.

More or less what I assumed. Sort of oddly if I try this...

public class TestBuildWithDiacriticals {
// é,è,à 

	public static void main(String[] args) {}
}

javac compiles it fine? If it's javac throwing the error on yours it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.