Name: dk106046 Date: 04/10/2003

Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1)
Classic VM (build 1.4.1, J2RE 1.4.1 IBM z/OS Persistent Reusable VM build cmdev-20030212 (JIT enabled: jitc))


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The javac compiler produces garbled error messages when source code is not ASCII encoded and file.encoding is not ASCII

Here's a very simple test class that contains a syntax error:
    public class tmp {
      public void test() {
        abcdefg
      }
    }
If this is encoded in EBCDIC, and file.encoding=CP1047 then javac produces garbled error messages.
The problem lies in com/sun/tools/javac/util/Log.printErrLine which reads the source code directly into a
byte array and then parses this expecting to see ASCII CR and LF characters. Also The String constructed
for display of the error line column indicator assumes default platform encoding, but the text is constructed
from UTF-8 spaces and '^' characters.

Note that this is probably not a problem for Sun SDKs, however the code in
com/sun/tools/javac/util/Log.printErrLine is really not right.

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###@###.### 10/26/04 02:38 GMT

Should be fixed when we do JSR199 work.
###@###.### 2005-2-14 22:47:53 GMT