I cannot remember the details but in 2010 I had similar problem in a cross-platform project using Clojure. And problems earlier in another cross-platform/cross-language project.
So it's the reverse way, no BOM at all... Can't believe we are in 2015 still struggling with character set issues. Having to to think about this when saving a file in notepad...That's depressing. No wonder why I now stay away from Windows as much as possible. I can't understand why we cannot get some transparent behavior from the Java runtime. These are human readable text files. Not some unreadable binary format. Googled a bit about this and numerous people face this problem reading windows generated files. They all ended up having to skip the BOM if present when reading the file. So much for portability. Beurk. > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Luc Préfontaine < > lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> wrote: > > > BG is right on it. I hit this problem a decade ago (roughly :)). > > UTF-8 files with no BOM are not handled properly on windows. > > It assumes that they are ASCII coded. That works partially (both character > > sets have the same > > encoding for many characters) but eventually fails. > > > > > Make sure that the files have a BOM. You can do this on a per file basis > > using an IDE > > (Eclipse, ...) or if you can use bash scripts to do this if you have > > access to a u*x environment. > > I did not find an equivalent native windows tool but they might be some to > > do this in batch. > > > > Luc P. > > > > Clojure source files are expected to be in UTF-8 and Clojure on Windows > doesn't require a BOM. > > In fact, Clojure files must not contain a BOM because it isn't considered > to be whitespace by the clojure parser and will cause the error "Unable to > resolve symbol: ? in this context". > > Some software, such as Windows notepad uses the presence of a BOM to detect > UTF-8, but that can be overridden in the File | Open dialog. Other than > that, the behaviour of the BOM on Clojure between Linux and Windows should > be the same - this stuff is all handled by Java code in the JDK - not by > the Windows platform. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Luc Préfontaine<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
