Bug 351656 - UTF-8 not accepted during PDE-export
Summary: UTF-8 not accepted during PDE-export
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: UOMo
Classification: Technology
Component: Units (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Werner Keil CLA
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Keywords: investigate, nl, ui
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Blocks: 350289
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Reported: 2011-07-10 10:13 EDT by Werner Keil CLA
Modified: 2013-04-28 09:30 EDT (History)
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Description Werner Keil CLA 2011-07-10 10:13:12 EDT 
During a PDE-export of UOMo Units the following error occurs:
# 10.07.11 19:35:16 IST
# Eclipse Compiler for Java(TM) 0.A68_R36x, 3.6.1, Copyright IBM Corp 2000, 2010. All rights reserved.
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1. ERROR in C:\Users\Werner\workspace\sts-2.5.0.RELEASE\units\org.eclipse.uomo\bundles\org.eclipse.uomo.units\src\main\java\org\eclipse\uomo\units\impl\DimensionImpl.java (at line 81)
	public static final Dimension TEMPERATURE = new DimensionImpl('Θ');
	                                                              ^^^^
Invalid character constant
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1 problem (1 error)

Current workaround is using "Q" (its Latin equivalent) instead of the Greek character Theta until this problem is fixed. This only occurs for PDE build as both Eclipse internal compiler and Maven have correctly been set to UTF-8.
Comment 1 David Michonneau CLA 2012-02-07 05:16:07 EST 
the error also happens on the first character of a file that is encoded as utf-8: /*, and it reports an error:

(I have a java file that start with /*)

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1. ERROR in <filename>.java (at line 1)
	/*
	^^^
Syntax error on tokens, delete these tokens
Comment 2 Werner Keil CLA 2012-02-07 06:20:05 EST 
Sorry, but I have a feeling, the file starting with /* violates a whole lot of naming conventions for Java and/or Eclipse.

/* generally starts comments in Java, e.g. it is good practice to start the name with an uppercase ASCII character (no special cases like äÄöÖüÖ, ß or similar either;-) 

Can you explain in more detail why you would need that odd file name?
Comment 3 Werner Keil CLA 2013-04-28 09:30:02 EDT 
Given UOMo is now generally built using Tycho/Maven, this issue may only arise, if manual PDE export used a wrong encoding, i.E. NOT UTF8, thus the issue may be considered resolved, as it doesn't affect Tycho build of all plugins/bundles.