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SWT/Devel/Gtk/NonAsciiCharacters
Non-Ascii causes compile issues
One should avoid having non-ascii characters in the code base as it brings up warnings in compilitations. This can happen if you copy and paste from some webpage.
This can lead to compilation issues like:
/opt/public/hipp/homes/genie.cbi/workspace/cbi-swt-natives-linux- x86_64/eclipse.platform.swt.binaries/
bundles/org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86_64/temp.folder/@dot.src/org/eclipse/swt/
accessibility/AccessibleObject.java:46: warning: unmappable character for encoding ASCII
// ATK_ROLE_TABLE_ROW was introduced in ATK 2.1.0. See Bug??470629 for details.
^
SRC: https://hudson.eclipse.org/cbi/job/cbi-swt-natives-linux-x86_64/3561/console
Finding Non-Ascii characters
To check if you have ascii characters in your code base, you can use a script like:
#!/bin/sh cd "/home/lufimtse/git/eclipse.platform.swt" grep -r --color='auto' -P -n "[\x80-\xFF]" --include=*.java
Example use:
# swtasciicheck bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT Accessibility/gtk/org/eclipse/swt/accessibility/AccessibleObject.java:46: // ATK_ROLE_TABLE_ROW was introduced in ATK 2.1.0. See Bug 470629 for details