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

Just specify encoding in your build.xml script:

But for code re-use it's better to extract value into project-specific configuration file:

And then just add java.encoding=UTF-8 to build.properties to override encoding on per-project basis.