Invalid character encountered in file

[Charles Morin]

Hi,

Is there a way to fix this easily?
[sonar:sonar] Invalid character encountered in file PATH_TO_FILE at line 25 for encoding UTF-8. Please fix file content or configure the encoding to be used using property 'sonar.sourceEncoding'.

The character that is causing the warning is a single quote, which is used quite often in Javadoc in the French language.

Is there a way to escape this or have it fixed?

Thank you

Charles

[Charles Morin]

I've forgot to mention that I have the following property in my Ant build script:
sonar.sources.sourceEncoding=UTF-8

Taken from:
http://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SONAR/Analysis+Parameters

[G. Ann Campbell]

Hi Charles,

Is this a curly quote or straight quote?

Ann

[Charles Morin]

Straight quote, just like '
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Thank you

[Charles Morin]

It also bogs down when finding accents like é è ê etc...

All these are common characters for the french language.

[Julien HENRY]

Hi guys,

Is your file really encoded in UTF-8?

My guess if you are on Windows is that the encoding is ISO-8859-1.

An option is to open the file with an Hexadecimal editor to get the real bytes and find the encoding (I doubt a straight quote will cause the issue since it is the same encoding in UTF-8 and in ISO-8859-1).

For a 'é' character, encoding is:

  UTF-8: a9c3 000a

 ISO-8859-1: 0ae9

++

Julien

[Charles Morin]

I am indeed on Windows. After reviewing my Eclipse properties (under Window > Preferences > Workspace), Text file encoding is set to Cp1252. Would it make sense to switch it to UTF-8?

Thanks

[Charles Morin]

I have finally used ISO-8851-1 for the sonar.sources.sourceEncoding parameter and it worked. No more warning.

Thank you all

Charles

On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 8:37:29 AM UTC-4, Julien HENRY wrote: