title: Unicode in javadoc and comments?
body: <p>Some compilers failed on non-ASCII characters in JavaDoc and source code comments. What is the current (Java 7) and future (Java 8 and beyond) practices with respect to Unicode in Java source files? Are there differences between IcedTea, OpenJDK, and other Java environments, and what is dictated the the language specification? Should all non-ASCII characters be escaped in JavaDoc with HTML <em>&escape;</em>-like codes? But what would be the Java <em>// comment</em> equivalent?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong>: comments indicate that one can use any character set, and that upon compiling one needs to indicate what char set is used in the source file. I will look into this, and will be looking for details on how to configure this via Ant, Eclipse, and Maven.</p>