Unmappable character for encoding ASCII but my files are in UTF-8

Question

I have the following error launching my ant script:

[javac] /****/TextUtils.java:25: error: unmappable character for encoding ASCII

But this file is encoded in UTF-8, if i do the info command:

/***/TextUtils.java: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Why is this file compiled in ASCII and not in utf-8?

I tried to force the encoding in utf-8 on the javac command in my ant build file but without success

May be, it hepls http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14106936/ant-warning-unmappable-character-for-encoding-utf8 — Alexey Semenyuk, Sep 26 '14 at 20:01
@alexs export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF8 did the trick... Thank you! — Jerome Ansia, Sep 26 '14 at 20:05

score 76 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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Setting the Default Java File Encoding to UTF-8:

export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF8

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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answered Sep 26 '14 at 20:09

Alexey Semenyuk

;) I was gonna propose you to post an answer. Thanks for your help again Alex! – Jerome Ansia Sep 26 '14 at 20:11
do we need to do this directly within the directory where we run `ant`? because I still get the `ummappable` error sometimes. – weefwefwqg3 Nov 01 '17 at 17:41

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