Malformed \uxxxx encoding error !!

Hi
I was using Ant first time when I got this error.
Actually I was deplying Edroman's samples on weblogic7. FYI ejb, Weblogic and Ant all are new for me.
So I copied one example of weblogic and making changes to run Edroman example.
When I run Ant, I got this error
"Malformed \uxxxx encoding "
I serached Google .. but could not found any reason for it. It was the same script which was running previously.
When I debug I found that this line was giving error
<property file="./examples.properties"/>
I think "." as current directory is not taken by Ant.
Then I used another property
<property name="source" value="."/>
and rewrite
<property file="${source}/examples.properties"/>
Now it works properly.
No queries ... just wanted to share this new experence.

Well, first of all, there's no need for the "." because ant will resolve the path relative to whatever you defined for basedir in the project. That said, I tried out the syntax you used, and didn't get any errors. The message "Malformed \uxxxx encoding" seems to refer to a bad Unicode character somewhere, but I don't know where that could be.

But from my build.xml I changed that line only and after that I did not get error.
I am using Ant provided by weblogic 7.0 and my build file is like the build files used by weblogic examples.

All,
I had the same problem and figured out it was because I used '\' when defining my directory struture and I had a 'usr' directpry aka '\usr\<blah>' which the XML parser likely thought was a unicode escape sequence..
Solution: Make usre you use '/' in all directory vars