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

[Peter Hawkins <peter@hawkins.emu.id.au>]

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Hi...

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:28 am, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 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).

I probably do mean Latin-1.

>
> > 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?

I've never touched the locale on my systems, so it's the default (LANG="C"?)
You're correct that it appears to build if I specify --encoding=ISO-8859-1 as 
an argument to gcj. Unfortunately the transformation of the '-encoding' 
argument is broken in the java wrapper script, so it needs fixing (patch 
attached, the -encoding argument needs a '-' prepended).

However, there is still a minor problem in that running the 'java' wrapper 
script picks a different default encoding to the default encoding of the jdk. 
I gather the jdk picks its encoding from the environment as well, but I think 
it chooses differently. Maybe the default should be ISO-8859-1 for the "C" 
locale, not ASCII?

=)
Peter
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--- /usr/bin/javac	2003-01-28 17:54:13.000000000 +1100
+++ javac	2003-06-15 10:21:20.000000000 +1000
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         $appendNextArg = '--classpath=';
     } elsif ($arg eq '-encoding' or $arg eq '-bootclasspath' or
              $arg eq '-extdirs') {
-        $appendNextArg = $arg . '=';
+        $appendNextArg = "-". $arg . '=';
     } elsif ($arg eq '-d') {
         push @commandLine, '-d';
         $copyNextArg = 1;