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Lucas
Lucas

Reputation: 3725

Converting string into the unsigned integer

I use the following code to convert the string into the integers:

int main(){
const char* mystring="abcdefghijklmnop";

unsigned int* key = (unsigned int*)mystring;
for(int i=0;i<2;i++) {
     std::cout << i << ": " << key[i] << std::endl;
}
std::cout << std::endl << "Result for:" << mystring << std::endl;
}

Result:

0: 1684234849
1: 1751606885
2: 1818978921
3: 1886350957

Result for:abcdefghijklmnop

As you can see, its working really fine, but just until the moment when the encoding is different, eg. for the string like: ®_ďÚ.J.®—Mf3Lý!® (ASCII) (see the Result for: below)

It returns:

0: 3294604994
1: 781894543
2: 2931961418
3: 1301577954

Result for:®_ÄŹĂš.J.®—Mf3LĂ˝!® // <-- notice this, its totally different as the input (`®_ďÚ.J.®—Mf3Lý!®`)

I was trying setting the encoding in my IDE (Netbeans) but without any possitive results, also I was trying to compile to source on ideone.com, setting the browser encoding - unfortunately with the same results. Is there any possibility for it to generate the real result based on the input string encoding without messing it up? Maybe there are any other possibilities to achieve what I want?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 77

Answers (1)

Mark Ransom
Mark Ransom

Reputation: 308520

Your IDE is entering the characters encoded as UTF-8. I verified this by working backwards from your numeric output, it produced ®_ďÚ.J.®—M. By the way, calling that ASCII is not accurate at all.

Your output window is using a different encoding. By the looks of it it's code page 1250 Central/Eastern European.

Upvotes: 1

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