[GROOVY-4059] Groovyc: taking file.encoding property over from parent process when forked

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.2, 1.8-beta-1
• Component/s: Ant integration
• Environment: MacOS10.6, Groovy1.7.0, (Gradle0.9-SNAPSHOT)
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Yasuharu Nakano
• Created: 15/Feb/10 00:55
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:12
• Resolved: 23/Mar/10 00:35

Description

I want to add file.encoding property as one of the command line parameters of org.codehaus.groovy.ant.Groovyc in order to take it over to sub process from parent process.
I've attached a simple patch.

Background:
I'm using Gradle for building some Groovy projects. (Gradle is my favorite.) But when there are compilation errors in target sources, garbled characters are written as console log. I can't read the error messages. It's very difficult to debug the code.

My development environment is as follows:

• (a) I'm Japanese who uses multi-bytes characters
• (b) using Gradle 0.9-SNAPSHOT (my local build from source code)
• (c) using Groovy 1.7.0
• (d) using MacOS 10.6 whose default encoding is Shift_JIS
  (it's UTF-8 in MacOS 10.5 previous. I think that the change by Apple is causing so much trouble )
• (e) my terminal's character encoding is UTF-8
• (f) I execute java command with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

I think that the environment is not so minority among developers who is Mac users in multi-bytes world.
To use file.encoding property like (f) is not official way to specify default encoding. But it's working well now and any side effect will not occur.

regards