Re: trouble compiling prog that contains strings with accented characters
marlow.andrew@googlemail.com wrote:
I am trying to compile a program I downloaded from sourceforge that
compiles with java5 [sic] but not with java6 [sic]. With java [sic] 6 it complains about
strings in the source that contain accented characters such as u
umlaut. The prog is extracting text from PDFs and analysing them. So
it has to deal with these characters. I am aware of how these get
represented in HTML and UTF-8 codes but not how they are entered into
string literals. Can anyone help please?
I don't see this behavior.
<sscce class="testit.HaiCharate" >
package testit;
/** HaiCharate.
*/
public class HaiCharate
{
private static final String G?T = "g?t";
/** Entry point.
* @param args <code>String []</code> command line arguments.
*/
public static void main( String [] args )
{
System.out.println( G?T );
}
}
</sscce>
Output:
g?t
$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_11-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0-b16, mixed mode)
$ javac -d ../build/classes/ testit/HaiCharate.java
$ java -cp ../build/classes/ testit.HaiCharate
g?t
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