:-) I did not try this one Well, converting all the affected files should work then --Hardy On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Strong Liu wrote: > okay, I find it, Windows-1251 for Cyrillic alphabets > > thanks BBEdit's reopen using encoding function :D > ------------------------- > Best Regards, > > Strong Liu <stliu at hibernate.org> > http://about.me/stliu/bio > > On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Hardy Ferentschik wrote: > >> >> On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Strong Liu wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mar 19, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Hardy Ferentschik wrote: >>> >>>> why does it say then "Execution failed for task ':hibernate-envers:generateJpaMetamodelClasses'." >>>> Confusing message at the very least. >>> >>> dont' know about that, but it also fails when i call compileJava directly >>> >>>> >>>> do the files look correct when you ope them in the editor? >>>> >>> >>> nope, does it look correct on your side? >> >> >> no. I would say it is not UTF-8 to begin with. This is case for iconv >> >>> iconv -f <whatever> -t UTF-8 <files> >> >> The problem is the whatever. If you use the wagon encoding you end up with some garbage, but >> at least it would be UTF-8. I tried a couple of source encodings, but none gives results where I would say >> that's probably it. >> >> You could try to use iconv with for example ISO-8859-1 and see if it compiles then. At least you would know that >> the problem is the actual encoding. >> >> --Hardy >