Ant: Malformed \uxxxx encoding in propertyfile task

i know that this question was asked a while ago but i stumbled on it without an answer, on another site i found (http://www.coderanch.com/t/107014/tools/Malformed-uxxxx-encoding-error) i found that this could happen when instead of "\" for file destinations you should be using "/" because of how parsing works/ Hope this helps.

go to your .m2 directory in home directory and for every dependence delete the "resolver-status.properties". You can do that using

find ~/.m2/ -name resolver-status.properties -delete

It will find all "resolver-status.properties" and -delete flag will delete them.

Now reload maven project.

In my case it was maven throwing this error.

[INFO] Building some-prj 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  0.508 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2021-08-31T08:00:30-07:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Malformed \uxxxx encoding.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.

I had to rename the .m2 dir

mv ~/.m2 ~/m2_20210831

and restart maven build

mvn clean package

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  48.927 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2021-08-31T08:04:56-07:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------