Ant encoding problem on Windows - UTF-8 files but spits garbage on diacritics

Question

Somehow I can\'t get my UTF-8 sources to play nice with Ant.

I get a whole lot of \"warning: unmappable character for encoding ascii\". I\'m going crazy, really. Hou

Answer 1

Are you specifying the file encoding to the compiler correctly? The java compiler will otherwise default to use the platform's default encoding, which on Windows (for example) is not UTF-8. The encoding is specified by using the -encoding flag to javac.

javac -encoding utf8 ...

And in ant build.xml: