debian/changelog

+eclipse-debian-helper (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Made the source encoding configurable
+  * Standards-Version updated to 4.2.1
+
+ -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>  Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:31:08 +0200
+
 eclipse-debian-helper (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Fixed the classpath when depending on other bundles

debian/control

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11),
-Standards-Version: 4.1.5
+Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/eclipse-debian-helper.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/eclipse-debian-helper
 Homepage: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/eclipse-debian-helper

src/ant/build-eclipse-bundle.xml

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     <attribute name="depends" default=""        description="The comma separated list of local bundles used as dependencies"/>
     <attribute name="basedir" default="bundles" description="The base directory holding all the bundles"/>
     <attribute name="release" default="8"       description="The version of Java targeted"/>
+    <attribute name="encoding" default="UTF-8"  description="The source encoding"/>
     <element name="bundle-classpath" optional="true" implicit="true" description="The classpath elements required to build the bundle"/>
     <sequential>
       <if>
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@
           </copy>
 
           <!-- Compile the source files to target/classes -->
-          <javac srcdir="${bundle.dir.@{name}}/target/sources" destdir="${bundle.dir.@{name}}/target/classes" debug="yes" release="@{release}" includeantruntime="false" encoding="UTF-8">
+          <javac srcdir="${bundle.dir.@{name}}/target/sources" destdir="${bundle.dir.@{name}}/target/classes" debug="yes" release="@{release}" includeantruntime="false" encoding="@{encoding}">
             <classpath>
               <pathelement path="/usr/share/java/eclipse-osgi.jar"/>
               <pathelement path="/usr/share/java/org.eclipse.osgi.jar"/>