Re: java/2313: Java SimpleDateFormat crash with non US locales (french...)

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>]

diam@ensta.fr wrote:

> >Fix:
> Thanks to Bryce McKinlay, I added the 2 following files
> LocaleData_fr.java and LocaleData_fr_FR.java near
> the existing files LocaleData_en.java and LocaleData_en_US.java
> and added these two file in:
>       src/cvs/gcc/libjava/Makefile.am
>       src/cvs/gcc/libjava/Makefile.in

Cool, thanks. I'll look at checking those in shortly.

> But these LocaleData_fr.java files doen't accept french
> accents (this is another problem, gcc should ignore accents
> in source file)

This seems to be a side-effect of compiling libjava with "--encoding=UTF-8". This simple example:

public class Hello
{
  public static void main ( String []arguments)
  {
    System.out.println ("Liberté, égalité, fraternité !");
  }
}

works fine in the default mode, but with "--encoding=UTF-8" it produces incorrect output.

$ gcj Hello.java --main=Hello
$ ./a.out
Liberté, égalité, fraternité !
$ gcj --encoding=UTF-8 Hello.java --main=Hello
$ ./a.out
Libert          lit     fraternit

Unfortunately, I know very little about character encoding. Maybe Tom can suggest a fix or workaround. Perhaps its possible to do something to convert the file to a UTF-8 encoding before trying to compile it?

regards

  [ bryce ]