Most of the time when Java files have !ascii characters they don't specify the used encoding in build.xml (usually ISO-8859-1) and javac/javadoc split out warnings about this (Many Gentoo machines are probably running with UTF8 locales). For this reason you can add JAVA_ANT_ENCODING="ISO-8859-1" to the ebuild and with the latest javatoolkit the build.xml will get modified to specify the proper encoding. Regards, Petteri