title: Why wont NetBeans runt? (Malformed \uxxxx encoding error)
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      I was working on a J2ME project and out of nowhere, I just started getting this error.
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  My syntax is correct everywhere and I haven't had problems running it before.
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  <pre><code>D:\Users\Ihato\NetBeansProjects\JavaMEGUI3\nbproject\build-impl.xml:6: 
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed \uxxxx encoding.
      at java.util.Properties.loadConvert(Properties.java:568)
      at java.util.Properties.load0(Properties.java:390)
      at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:341)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property.loadProperties(Property.java:580)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property.loadFile(Property.java:597)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property.execute(Property.java:497)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
      at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor178.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.module.bridge.impl.BridgeImpl.run(BridgeImpl.java:285)
      at org.apache.tools.ant.module.run.TargetExecutor.run(TargetExecutor.java:539)
      at org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:153)
  BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried searching something about it but it's very poorly documented (5500 results on google)<br>
  Why is this happening?</p>
  
  <p>First few lines of the XML are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1 &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  2 &lt;!-- *** GENERATED FROM project.xml - DO NOT EDIT *** --&gt;
  3 &lt;project name="JavaMEGUI3-impl" default="jar" basedir=".."&gt;
  4     &lt;!--load-properties--&gt;
  5     &lt;target name="pre-load-properties"&gt;
  6         &lt;property file="nbproject/private/private.properties"/&gt;
  7         &lt;property name="user.properties.file" location="${netbeans.user}/build.properties"/&gt;
  8         &lt;available property="user.properties.file.exists" file="${user.properties.file}"/&gt;
  9     &lt;/target&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've checked the other projects and it's pretty much the same except for the name.</p>