Help with encoding issue needed for libjscience-java (Was: Help needed for libapfloat-java)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi,

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> missing dependency com.aparpi.aparapi:1.3.4 (for apfloat-aparapi) and
> org.jscience.jscience:4.3.1 (for apfloat-jscience)

I tried to start with the latter and have committed some initial
packaging to.  Unfortunately I get lots of errors of this type:

...
org/jscience/physics/amount/AmountFormat.java:186: error: illegal character: '\u00b1'
                if (arg0.charAt(arg1.getIndex()) == '±') { // Error specified.
                                                      ^
org/jscience/physics/amount/AmountFormat.java:186: error: unclosed character literal
                if (arg0.charAt(arg1.getIndex()) == '±') { // Error specified.
                                                       ^
org/jscience/physics/amount/AmountFormat.java:187: error: unclosed character literal
                    arg1.skip('±', arg0);
                              ^
org/jscience/physics/amount/AmountFormat.java:187: error: illegal character: '\u00b1'
                    arg1.skip('±', arg0);
                                ^
org/jscience/physics/amount/AmountFormat.java:187: error: unclosed character literal
                    arg1.skip('±', arg0);
                                 ^
org/jscience/physics/amount/AmountFormat.java:187: error: not a statement
                    arg1.skip('±', arg0);
                                    ^
100 errors


I checked just this example file:

$ file org/jscience/physics/amount/AmountFormat.java
org/jscience/physics/amount/AmountFormat.java: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text

The affected lines are looking in vim like:

186                 if (arg0.charAt(arg1.getIndex()) == '±') { // Error specified. 
187                     arg1.skip('±', arg0);


Any hint how to fix this?

Kind regards

     Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/libjscience-java 

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