Java and PHP4 ASCII

[cooper01]

Hi All

Currently I am developing a utility in Java, which needs to read a file, which is used in a PHP 4 application. This file is encrypted using a simple ASCII math and key encryption.

The Java application needs to read the file and return the same answer as the original PHP application, but on some characters it returns a different value. The PHP Application uses ord function, to convert a character into ASCII

Does anyone know how I could get the Java code, to return the same ASCII code?

Thanks

[gcalvin]

Hi All

Currently I am developing a utility in Java, which needs to read a file, which is used in a PHP 4 application. This file is encrypted using a simple ASCII math and key encryption.

The Java application needs to read the file and return the same answer as the original PHP application, but on some characters it returns a different value. The PHP Application uses ord function, to convert a character into ASCII

Does anyone know how I could get the Java code, to return the same ASCII code?

Thanks

There is a bit too much riddle in this question. Please show us your code, show us some Strings that work correctly, and show us some Strings that don't work.

-Gary-

[cooper01]

Sorry about that.

An example of the character that returns a different ASCII value is Œ


The way I would convert the character in PHP would be

$keychar = “Œ”
$iASCII = ord($keychar)

PHP returns 140

The way I would convert the character in Java would be

Char cCharacter = “Œ”
Int iASCII = cCharacter

Java returns 338


Would anyone be able to tell me, how I can return the same ASCII value within Java?

Thanks

[gcalvin]

Read this:

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software

-Gary-

[JosAH]

Read this:

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software

-Gary-

A nice read; here's another nice read; it's an old email conversation by Rob Pike (yep, that one) about the origins of utf-8.

kind regards,

Jos