* lex.c (java_new_lexer): Longer error message.

From-SVN: r39520

diff --git a/gcc/java/ChangeLog b/gcc/java/ChangeLog
index 5fc513a32cd5982dc15efcaa0bef9dee25f58a46..45681106370bce6cb41bd427a33a81d0719132ac 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/java/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/java/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-02-06  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
+
+       * lex.c (java_new_lexer): Longer error message.
+
 2001-02-05  Jeff Sturm  <jeff.sturm@commerceone.com>
            Alexandre Petit-Bianco  <apbianco@cygnus.com>
 

diff --git a/gcc/java/lex.c b/gcc/java/lex.c
index 06eb35d7937723dc5e460e176e9600a3fcac8b4d..20e37d8183e3f393808362418e55140798968e09 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/java/lex.c
+++ b/gcc/java/lex.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ java_new_lexer (finput, encoding)
     }
 
   if (enc_error)
-    fatal_error ("unknown encoding: `%s'", encoding);
+    fatal_error ("unknown encoding: `%s'\nThis might mean that your locale's encoding is not supported\nby your system's iconv(3) implementation.  If you aren't trying\nto use a particular encoding for your input file, try the\n`--encoding=UTF-8' option.", encoding);
 
   return lex;
 }