[tw-mbp-yic pants (master)]$ ./pants compile examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello:: -—jvm-distributions-paths=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_60.jdk/Contents/Home
/Users/yic/workspace/pants/src/python/pants/option/options_bootstrapper.py:62: UnicodeWarning: Unicode unequal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
  bargs = filter(is_bootstrap_option, itertools.takewhile(lambda arg: arg != '--', self._args))
Exception caught: (<type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>)
  File "/Users/yic/workspace/pants/src/python/pants/bin/pants_exe.py", line 50, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/yic/workspace/pants/src/python/pants/bin/pants_exe.py", line 44, in main
    PantsRunner(exiter).run()
  File "/Users/yic/workspace/pants/src/python/pants/bin/pants_runner.py", line 47, in run
    global_bootstrap_options = options_bootstrapper.get_bootstrap_options().for_global_scope()
  File "/Users/yic/workspace/pants/src/python/pants/option/options_bootstrapper.py", line 62, in get_bootstrap_options
    bargs = filter(is_bootstrap_option, itertools.takewhile(lambda arg: arg != '--', self._args))
  File "/Users/yic/workspace/pants/src/python/pants/option/options_bootstrapper.py", line 51, in is_bootstrap_option
    components = arg.split('=', 1)

Exception message: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)