Ant on Ubuntu does not support Russian

Question

Programming

The problem was noticed when Ant, after building scripts on the server (Ubuntu), replaced all Russian letters with question marks. There was no such problem on Windows. The Russian language is supported by the system, but Ant does not accept it even if the encoding is specified. Even simple <echo encoding="UTF-8">Русский текст</echo>outputs ??????? ?????.

Used Ubuntu 11.10 and ant 1.8.2. Ubuntu Russian localization packages are installed.

Answer 1

Found a solution. As it turned out, this is a common Java problem with encodings. The solution is somewhat shamanistic and it is this:
In the /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir file, replace the lines:

-ru_RU.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE	ru_RU.UTF-8
+en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE	ru_RU.UTF-8

-ru_RU.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE:	ru_RU.UTF-8
+en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE:	ru_RU.UTF-8