default.pre: [copy] Copying 9 files to /export/home/hzhou/jakarta/jakarta-taglibs/build/i18n/i18n-examples/WEB-INF/classes japanese.encoding: [delete] Deleting 2 files from /export/home/hzhou/jakarta/jakarta-taglibs/build/i18n/i18n-examples/WEB-INF/classes The error message while building using ant: BUILD FAILED /export/home/hzhou/jakarta/jakarta-taglibs/i18n/build.xml:21: Could not create task of type: native2ascii. Common solutions a re to use taskdef to declare your task, or, if this is an optional task, to put the optional.jar in the lib directory of your ant installation (ANT_HOME).
compile error from i18n, need optional.jar I searched and got two optional.jar: ant_1_3-optional.jar and ant_1_4-optional.jar I tried each one by putting it in $ANT_HOME/lib as instructed. I got "BUILD FAIL".
the use needs to grab the ant optional.jar. instructions sent to user.