Re: Character replaced with "?"


Tidan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm programming a web service in Java on unix platform and this web
> service is called by a windows client. The client send a crypted string
> to the server, but some character are not recognise and they are
> replaced with question mark... And the numeric value of this character
> change for 63 (value of the question mark)
> These character are (in decimal) 129,141, 143, 144, 157. Both client
> and server are set to use cp1252 encoding.
> I know these character are unused in CP1252, but when I encrypt the
> string on the client, I use an algorithm based on numeric values of the
> characters and so, I can have some of these in the string. When it
> append, I am unable to decrypt my string on the server.

Since you want to send binary data, base64 encoding _is_ the way to go.
If there where some characters you wish to transmit, i would suggest
specifying the proper encoding in your web service call.

.

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