[Jython-dev] copyright characters in source files

[Ben B. <be...@ac...>]

Hi.. a note on a different subject.

I'm using jikes to build jython.  Some time ago I got an error regarding the 
use of the copyright character in a quoted string (in sha.java).  Which was 
fine, I just edited the file and replaced the character with (c) and all was 
well.

Now, since my last upgrade, jikes gets upset when the file contains 
non-standard characters.  Even in comments.

So suddenly I find myself having to manually edit some 114 files to replace 
copyright characters with (c) in the comment headers, eg.:
// Copyright (c) Corporation for National Research Initiatives

The error jikes gives me is:

jikes +E +D -g -classpath 
"../../..:/usr/share/java/libgcj.jar:/usr/share/kaffe/rmi.jar:/usr/share/java/servlet-2.2.jar" 
ArgListCompiler.java
Charset conversion error at offset 13: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or 
wide character

You could say "just don't use jikes", but jikes is explicitly designed to 
adhere precisely to language and VM specifications; no more, no less.  So I 
would claim we *want* jython to compile with jikes because this should mean 
it will compile with any sane and compliant java compiler.

So basically what I'm going to ask is for all the copyright characters to be 
replaced with (c). :)  I realise this is an onerous task (although one that 
only took me a few minutes with a for loop in bash and a lot of repetitive 
keystrokes in vi).

If people don't have the time to do it, I will happily do this myself if 
you're willing (I have a sourceforge account, username bab).

Thanks,
	Ben.

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