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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 570

Euro symbols JNA conversion issue

I'm trying to put euro symbol in a Java string that is passed to a native function(using JNA) in this way:

/*JAVA*/
String s= new String("Euro symbol=€");

nativefunction(s.getBytes(US-ASCII));


/*C++*/
void nativefunction(char *s)
{
    printf("%s",s);
}

native function output: Euro symbol=?

Why the symbol is printed as ? instead €.

I also tried to use ascii code of euro symbol(\0x80) but the result is the same.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2734

Answers (2)

forty-two
forty-two

Reputation: 12817

Internally, Java encodes strings in UTF-16, which uses two bytes for each character. The UTF codepoint for the EURO SIGN is U+20AC, which is 0x20AC in the UTF-16 encoding. US-ASCII uses one byte for each character. Since the euro sign cannot be represented in US ascii, the encoder replaces this character with a question mark. Read about in in the CharSetEncoder documentation.

Upvotes: 0

axtavt
axtavt

Reputation: 242726

US-ASCII doesn't contain euro character. Perhaps you meant Windows-1252, if so, use:

nativefunction(s.getBytes("Windows-1252"));

If it still doesn't work, try to use Unicode escape sequence in Java code:

String s= new String("Euro symbol=\u20ac");

If it works for \u20ac but doesn't work for €, you need to configure source code encoding.

Upvotes: 4

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