“unmappable character for encoding” warning in Java

1、Try to change file encoding of your source files and set the Default Java File Encoding to UTF-8 also.

For Ant:

add -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 to your ANT_OPTS environment variable

Setting the Default Java File Encoding to UTF-8:

export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF8

Or you can start up java with an argument -Dfile.encoding=UTF8

2、Use the "\uxxxx" escape format.

According to Wikipedia, the copyright symbol is unicode U+00A9 so your line should read:

String copyright = "\u00a9 2003-2008 My Company. All rights reserved.";

3、if you're using Maven, set the <encoding> explicitly in the compiler plugin's configuration, e.g.

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.2</version>
            <configuration>
                <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

4、add encoding="utf-8" in ant build.xml file javac element options