Steve Cohen wrote:
> I am trying to build a project that requires the cp1252 encoding to be
> used by the compiler. There are Spanish literals in the source code as
> quoted strings and I prefer to leave it that way rather than decipher
> the unicode every time I look at it. I wouldn't mind using the unicode
> if I could write the equivalent as a comment but the compiler complains
> about encodings in comments as well.
>
> I have always built this project using m2eclipse, successfully, but now
> am trying to build it from the command line. I find that in spite of
> the presence of this in the pom.xml
>
> <properties>
> <project.build.sourceEncoding>cp1252</project.build.sourceEncoding>
> </properties>
>
> the compiler plugin complains about "unmappable character for encoding
> UTF8". This is true even though the maven output includes
>
> [INFO] Using 'cp1252' encoding to copy filtered resources. Why doesn't
> the compiler plugin respect my expressed wishes?
>
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I can workaround this by adding <encoding>cp1252</encoding> to the
compiler plugin configuration but this appears to contradict
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/compile-mojo.html
which says
"The -encoding argument for the Java compiler.
Default value is: ${project.build.sourceEncoding}."
BTW, using compiler plugin version 2.0.2
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