From: Robert Lehman <grieve@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T01:27:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode Character 'SUBSTITUTE' (U+001A) troubles...

On Mar 17, 12:01 pm, Robert Lehman <gri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm implementing a version of the "Mini-AES" (http://findarticles.com/
> p/articles/mi_qa3926/is_200210/ai_n9129484) in Ruby and have all of
> the bit shifts and stuff working..
>
> The problem I'm having is with the file input.  When ever the input
> file has the character U+001A (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/
> char/001a/index.htm), it stops reading in the line (and thus doesn't
> complete the whole cipher text).
>
> Basically, here is the code that I'm using to read the input:
> fin = File.open(ARGV[0], 'r')
> plainText = ""
> while (line = fin.gets)
>   plainText += line
> end
> fin.close
>
> Here is a sample line of cipher text:
> týH†a¤j{ÀìyMšyM ÇÜ«àÃSÙ¿àé4þF&käj{Àì
>
> if I read this line in, it would only read "týH†a¤j{ÀìyMšyM" and skip
> the rest.

I'm using Windows btw.