$ jikes -help|grep encoding
-encoding encoding use specified encoding to read
source files
$
This is on FreeBSD 5-stable, same thing happens on
FreeBSD 4.11. I have iconv-1.9.2 installed, and jikes
configure finds it alright. But with the encoding
opition on, jikes does everything completely wrong.
Running jikes -encoding UTF-8 hangs jikes forever on
any source file, every time (*very* reproducable :).
Running jikes -encoding ISO-8859-1 on a file with
8859-1 characters gives the error:
Charset conversion error at offset 6963: Illegal byte
sequence
Well, that's pretty odd since there are no illegal byte
sequences in 8859-1, but surely in UTF-8.
Will jikes work better with ICU? Which version in that
case? I have ICU 3.2 for other purposes, but the
configure script seems to look for an earlier version?
Also, it always looks for iconv first, if both are
found which will be used?
I see in the TODO file that
"It is not clear if iconv is only a little broken or
totally busted."
Well, I'd say completely busted :-)
Is anyone else experiencing this? Is anyone working on
it? Is there a way to fix it (perhaps using ICU?)
Thanks,
Palle
