Illegal Character on Jenkins Server

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I had now several Problems with my Jenkins Build Server and i dont know where they come from... I'm getting this error message:

illegal character: \65279

which seems like to be UTF16-BOM. When i open the corresponding file with a HEX Editor, i cant see a FE FF mark at the beginning, or somewhere else in the code. Also file does not say anything about BOM:

TransactionFunctionImpl.java: UTF-8 Unicode Java program text

Whats going on there?

Another question is: why cant my jenkins server build bom files, when my eclipse does it?

when trying to build the project. I'm getting this error from javac — reox, Jan 17 '12 at 14:56

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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According to this site:

Note: the JDK 1.6 javac compiler will not compile a UTF-8 source file starting with a byte order mark, failing with the error illegal character: \65279.

So presumably the JDK version differs between your desktop and your Jenkins server.

The best solution would be to remove the redundant BOM from your source, as suggested in this related answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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answered Jan 17 '12 at 15:51

Christopher Orr

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its borh the same... also very curious: the file isnt a BOM file! – reox Jan 17 '12 at 16:51

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '13 at 01:25

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I just ran into this using Samsung's S pen Sdk example source on Linux.

Copy the text of the program and paste it into an entirely new file. Works for me.

answered Aug 10 '13 at 01:25

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Illegal Character on Jenkins Server

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