Bug#197375: gcj dies when parsing java code with high ASCII values in it

[martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis)]

Peter Hawkins <peter@hawkins.emu.id.au> writes:

> gcj doesn't appear to like high-valued characters in it's input stream. 

Please don't use the term "high ASCII", there is no such thing. Most
likely, you are talking about Latin-1 (but it could also be that you
are talking about UTF-8 or Latin-9).

> Since Sun's jdk apparently doesn't have a problem with this, could gcj be made 
> to handle these characters too?

gcj supports these characters, through the --encoding command line
option. If that option is not specified, the locale's encoding is used.
What encoding has your locale?

Regards,
Martin