{"id":242,"date":"2013-10-30T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T12:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ingby.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2015-03-09T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:57:00","slug":"java-encoding-of-source-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Java encoding of source files"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a problem with some java source files, which javac<\/em> couldn’t compile, because the file encoding was correct. The source files did include some Swedish UTF-8 characters.<\/p>\n

unmappable character for encoding ASCII<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I checked what my ant environment looked like:<\/p>\n

$ ant -diagnostics|grep encoding
\nfile.encoding.pkg : sun.io
\nsun.jnu.encoding : ANSI_X3.4-1968
\nfile.encoding : ANSI_X3.4-1968
\nsun.io.unicode.encoding : UnicodeLittle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definitely not the UTF-8 encoding I desired.<\/p>\n

Checked my environment<\/p>\n

\n$ locale
\nlocale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
\nLANG=en_US.UTF-8
\nLANGUAGE=en_US:
\nLC_CTYPE=”en_US.UTF-8″
\nLC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_TIME=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_COLLATE=”en_US.UTF-8″
\nLC_MONETARY=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_MESSAGES=”en_US.UTF-8″
\nLC_PAPER=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_NAME=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_ADDRESS=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_TELEPHONE=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_IDENTIFICATION=sv_SE.UTF-8
\nLC_ALL=\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then:<\/p>\n

\n$ locale -a
\nC
\nC.UTF-8
\nen_AG
\nen_AG.utf8
\nen_AU.utf8
\nen_BW.utf8
\nen_CA.utf8
\nen_DK.utf8
\nen_GB.utf8
\nen_HK.utf8
\nen_IE.utf8
\nen_IN
\nen_IN.utf8
\nen_NG
\nen_NG.utf8
\nen_NZ.utf8
\nen_PH.utf8
\nen_SG.utf8
\nen_US.utf8
\nen_ZA.utf8
\nen_ZM
\nen_ZM.utf8
\nen_ZW.utf8
\nPOSIX\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that sv_SE.UTF-8<\/em> is missing.<\/p>\n

$ sudo locale-gen sv_SE.UTF-8<\/p>\n

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check java file encoding again:<\/p>\n

$ ant -diagnostics|grep encoding
\nfile.encoding.pkg : sun.io
\nsun.jnu.encoding : UTF-8
\nfile.encoding : UTF-8
\nsun.io.unicode.encoding : UnicodeLittle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m running Ubuntu 12.04 Server and the previous command worked fine the other day. I guess that there was some Ubuntu update which destroyed my environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a problem with some java source files, which javac couldn’t compile, because the file encoding was correct. The source files did include some Swedish UTF-8 characters. unmappable character for encoding ASCII So I checked what my ant environment looked like: $ ant -diagnostics|grep encoding file.encoding.pkg : sun.io sun.jnu.encoding : ANSI_X3.4-1968 file.encoding : ANSI_X3.4-1968 … Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa Java encoding of source files<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,32,33],"tags":[30,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}