Re: Do you know how Java read character value greater than 128/255?

From:
Timothy Bendfelt <bendfelt@cs.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help,comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:30:04 -0600
Message-ID:
<Pine.GSO.4.58.0612131310250.8426@alumni.cs.wisc.edu>
These two bits of code do not do the same thing. The java code has the
opportunity to use the file encoding, including multi-byte schemes
(e.g. UTF8) to re-map bytes in the file stream to characters represented
as UTF16 code points. The C code should just be consuming bytes and
retuning them as unsigned chars.

Question: Do both of them read the same number of characters from the
stream?

Question: What does java think your default file encoding and code page
is? You can force it to read US-ASCII or LATIN 1 and run again.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, RC wrote:

I have

BufferedReader bufferedReader =
               new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inputfile_name));

int c;
while ((c = bufferedReader.read()) > -1 ) {
               if (c > (int)128) {
                   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) {
        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?

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