Re: Do you know how Java read character value greater than 128/255?
RC wrote:
int c;
while ((c = bufferedReader.read()) > -1 ) {
if (c > (int)128) {
128 is already an int, so casting it to int has no effect.
System.err.println(
(char)c + " " +
c + " " +
Integer.toOctalString(c) + " " +
Integer.toHexString(c)
);
}
}
bufferedReader.close();
This is fine, I got print all characters which ASCII value greater than
128.
Now I do the same in C
if ((fp = fopen("inputfile_name", "r")) == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Can't open %s\n", argv[1]);
exit(2);
}
int c;
while ((c = getc(fp)) != EOF) {
The C function getc() returns a byte-scale value, not a 16-bit value as does Java.
if (c > 128) {
printf("%c %d %o %x\n", c, c, c, c);
}
}
fclose(fp);
But in C I don't get print any character ASCII value greater than 128 by
read the same file.
I just wonder why, how do Java read those character ASCII greater
than 128?
Java is likely not reading ASCII but UTF-8. Have you tried the Java program
with the InputStreamReader encoding set to "US-ASCII"?
For a fuller answer one would need to know the contents of the file.
Check out the API docs for java.io.InputStreamReader and java.nio.charset.Charset.
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