[Bug libgcj/14670] [win32] gcj & high ascii: incorrectly translated / linux: fails to compile

["ovidr at users dot sourceforge dot net" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From ovidr at users dot sourceforge dot net  2004-12-15 04:59 -------
It isn't a compiling problem that I'm trying to illustrate.  TestD.java
(included above) has a line: String s = "<high ascii chars>" characters.    If
these characters were received over a network connection as a byte stream, they
would still be converted to a string via the "new String(byte[])" method, which
is used in TestD.java.

They would then be turned into a String, and displayed, as in the screenshot
attached above.  gcj doesn't seem to convert the characters properly (not in the
same was a sun's java anyway).   The testcase and screenshot hopefully
communicate what I mean.

Anyway, compiling to bytecode is separate issue:
gcc version 4.0.0 20041213 (experimental)
gcj -C --encoding=UTF-8 TestD.java
TestD.java:12: error: malformed UTF-8 character.
         String s = "&#9617;ñâRÇÇNÇåñ&#9617;";

gcj -C --encoding=ISO-8859-1 TestD.java
TestD.java:1: fatal error: unknown encoding: 'ISO-8859-1'
   This might mean that your locale's encoding is not supported
   by your system's iconv(3) implementation.  If you aren't trying
   to use a particular encoding for your input file, try the
   '--encoding=UTF-8' option
compilation terminated.

I have mingw msys iconv (GNU libiconv 1.8) on my system. 


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