Re: Weird characters in java/lang/Character.java

[Eric Blake]

I'm the release manager for the upcoming jikes 1.15 release, currently
targetted for Sept 26. Is there an actual bug with jikes' interpretation
of encodings?  If so, it might be a wise idea to move this discussion
over to the jikes mailing lists, to see if we can repair it in time for
the next release.

Unfortunately, I'm not the expert on encodings.  As pointed out earlier,
the most portable solution would be using \uxxxx characters instead of
8-bit ascii characters in the source .java files of Classpath, as then
jikes does not have to pull any encoding tricks.

"Etienne M. Gagnon" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:45:13PM -0400, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:
> > Brian Jones wrote:
> > >... I'm using jikes 1.13
> > >straight out of Red Hat 7.1.
> >
> > I'm on Debian "sid" running jikes 1.14 with glibc 2.2.4.  I will try
> > again with jikes 1.13, rebuilt from sources. ...
> 
> In case anybody is interested, I got Jikes 1.13, compiled it, then
> used it to recompile Classpath/Sablepath, and it effectively works
> now.  So, beware of Jikes 1.14 if you're on Debian :)
> 
> Etienne
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