DO NOT REPLY [Bug 16789] New: - backslash in build.properties

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backslash in build.properties

           Summary: backslash in build.properties
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.5
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT/2K
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


This one stumped me for a little while.

It appears that \ are treated as escape character in the 
property file.  Thats fine, but maybe the error message could be a little more 
helpful when things 
go wrong.

Below is the stack trace

Thanks 
again,
Colin

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed \uxxxx encoding.
        at 
java.util.Properties.loadConvert(Properties.java:309)
        at 
java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:258)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property.loadFile(Property.java:388)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property.execute(Property.java:351)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:319)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:309)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:336)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1250)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:610)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:196)
        at 
org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:235)