build error on german system

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Glenn Ganz wrote:

> if i try to build the latest version i run in a issue with some string 
> encoding problems.
> 
> /Users/gganz/macosx-port/build/macosx-universal/../macosx-universal-debug/corba/gensrc/org/omg/PortableServer/ServantRetentionPolicyValue.java:8: unmappable character for encoding ascii
> * Montag, 21. M?rz 2011 21:00 Uhr MEZ
>                ^
> /Users/gganz/macosx-port/build/macosx-universal/../macosx-universal-debug/corba/gensrc/org/omg/PortableServer/THREAD_POLICY_ID.java:8: unmappable character for encoding ascii
> * Montag, 21. M?rz 2011 21:00 Uhr MEZ
>                ^
> /Users/gganz/macosx-port/build/macosx-universal/../macosx-universal-debug/corba/gensrc/org/omg/PortableServer/ThreadPolicy.java:8: unmappable character for encoding ascii
> * Montag, 21. M?rz 2011 21:00 Uhr MEZ
>                ^
> /Users/gganz/macosx-port/build/macosx-universal/../macosx-universal-debug/corba/gensrc/org/omg/PortableServer/ThreadPolicyOperations.java:8: unmappable character for encoding ascii
> * Montag, 21. M?rz 2011 21:00 Uhr MEZ
>                ^
> /Users/gganz/macosx-port/build/macosx-universal/../macosx-universal-debug/corba/gensrc/org/omg/PortableServer/ThreadPolicyValue.java:8: unmappable character for encoding ascii
> * Montag, 21. M?rz 2011 21:00 Uhr MEZ
> 
> 
> It looks like that the files (or only the header are generated by the 
> make command with wrong encoding)

This looks like ISO-8859-1 (or -15) encoding. FWIW the correct string 
would be "Montag, 21. März 2011 21:00 Uhr MEZ".

The bigger question, though, is: why is there a timestamp in the source 
files? It seems more like the duty of the SCM to take care of timestamps.

Ciao,
Johannes