Special character [ ] on the mainframe

Question

I'm trying java on the mainframe (03/390 with Unix System Services Enabled, Java 1.3.1). This is all new to me so bare with me.
When I compile the HelloWorld.java code:
class HelloWorld {                                         
public static void main(String[]args) {         
System.out.println("Hello World!") ;
in my DOS window it works fine and I am able to run it.
When I compile the same,exact code in my unix shell, I receive the following compile error:
HelloWorld.java:3: illegal character: \168
public static void main(String[]args) {     
�
HelloWorld.java:5: ')' expected
�
Is there a difference in the character sets between the systems or am I just missing something?

Answer 1

Doesn't 0S/390 use some form of EBCDIC which is not ASCII compatible?
If encodings are the problem, you can force "javac" to interprete the file using a particular character encoding with the "-encoding" switch. Example:
javac -encoding US-ASCII HelloWorld.java