gcj has problems with German umlauts in source files

Mon Jun 17 01:56:00 GMT 2002

On 16 Jun 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Adrian> attached is a source file that compiles and runs fine with SUN
> Adrian> JDK 1.3.1 but fails to compile with gcj (the Debian package
> Adrian> that ships a 2002年06月06日 CVS snapshot of the
> Adrian> gcc-3_1-branch). It seems gcj has some problems with German
> Adrian> umlauts.
>> You need to compile with `--encoding=ISO-8859-1'.
> You are probably using the C locale. This example works with javac
> because it uses ISO-8859-1 with the C locale, while glibc uses ASCII
> and rejects characters >0x7f.

Ah, thanks for the explanation and sorry for bothering you with this
question.
> Tom

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Adrian
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