Building R9 with maven --> error: unmappable character for encoding UTF-8

[Robert Vogel]

Hi!

First of all, a few environment informations:

• Windows 7, SP1
• JDK 1.7.0.05
• Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 09:44:56+0100)
  

Today I downloaded the tag "9.0.0" (https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer/zipball/9.0.0) from github and tried to compile it using maven. In the first run I encountered the following error:

[ERROR] [...]\flying-saucer-core\src\main\java\org\xhtmlrenderer\context\StandardAttributeResolver.java:3: error: unmappable character for encoding UTF-8
[ERROR] * Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Torbj?rn Gannholm

The full output is attached to this post.

The good news: I was able to solve the problem and it is very simple. I just modified the main pom.xml and changed the line 95

<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

to

<project.build.sourceEncoding>Cp1252</project.build.sourceEncoding>

But I am not sure if this is a good solution, so maybe someone can give me some advice on this.

I also found an ancient disucssion in the markmail archives: http://markmail.org/message/hjiptcintseq3nbh#query:+page:1+mid:kdnt446lvwfifs2n+state:results
Maybe it would be good to change the encoding of the involved files?

Best regards,
Robert

[Patrick Wright]

Hi

personally, I think we should use the correct character and ensure all
files are in UTF-8 and fix the spelling of tobe's name where
necessary.

My guess is that the encoding of some files got mangled in moving
between boxes and sharing files; and we never used to enforce the
encoding at all AFAIR.

Cheers
P

[Peter Brant]

Weird.  I'm surprised it worked on Linux.  I've converted Torbjoern's name to ASCII and committed the result.

Pete

[Robert Vogel]

Hi Pete,

Thanks a lot :)

greetings,
Robert