3 replies to this topic

[shyam]

We have an encryption component that generates strings which might contain '†' character in between. A string that has this "†" character, is not getting displayed as it is when using MessageBox. When i try to add the string to registry, it is replaced by space. When i try to see the decimal value of the character that contains "†" it return 8224 which is an impossible ASC character.

SAMPLE CODE:
szRegVal = "adsf†adsf";
SprintfBox(MB_OK, @TITLE_MAIN, "String: %s, Chr: %c, Dec: %d, Hex: %lx", szRegVal, szRegVal[4], szRegVal[4], szRegVal[4]);

Displays the following content in messagebox
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Your Application Name
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String: adsf†adsf, Chr: , Dec: 8224, Hex: 2020
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OK
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Because of this reason, we have to restrict users not to use some set of characters.

Pls help me solve this issue. Thanks in advance.
Shyam

Edited by shyam, 06 April 2004 - 18:37.

[Taco Bell]

I spoke with Shyam about this. He's using InstallShield 6.2 and is experiencing the problem on Windows 2000.

He also stated that both C++ and VB don't have a problem with this character conversion, but that InstallShield does. I therefore suggested that he use a wrapper DLL for this functionality.

Edited by Taco Bell, 06 April 2004 - 20:28.

[Stefan Krueger]

I'm not sure but "†" doen't look like a standard ASCII character. Therefore InstallShield may represent it as Unicode, and thus 8224 my be a valid code.
Why it is replaced by a blank when writing it to the registry I don't know.

[shyam]

Taco!!!! We have already written a ATL component to do the work. But that was a small (negligible) overhead. Wanted to avoid it. Anyway!!! thanks a lot for taking time to respond to me personally and through the forum.

Stefen!!! Yea it is weird. When i added the same binary stream to registry through VB or C++, i see different set of characters in registry.

NOTE: This only happens while trying to treat the stream as BINARY. As a STRING, it shows pretty well.

Thanks to you too.

Edited by shyam, 13 April 2004 - 00:39.