Re: Get ASCII value for character when higher than 127

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 25 May 2007 10:45:56 -0500
Message-ID:
<#PzZJPunHHA.3880@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
ssetz@wxs.nl wrote:

On 24 mei, 17:14, "Ben Voigt" <r...@nospam.nospam> wrote:

Instead of wcstombs, use WideCharToMultiByte and CP_UTF8

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776420.aspx

Also write the UTF byte order mark to the beginning of the file, so it will
be decoded correctly by other programs (eg Notepad)


Thanks, this helped me further a bit. But I'm still not able to get
the correct int value for the special characters. For example, when I
reset a users password to the following:

??Abc1????p$%^

The int values that are written to my textfile for the password file
are:

0-61-0-87-0065-0098-0099-0049-0-58--110-0-61-0-85-0112-

And this should be:

0130-0065-0098-0099-0049-0159-0137-0112-0036-0037-0094-

Any idea what it is I'm still doing wrong? My code now looks like
below.

Thanks again,
Sandra

=========================================================

#include <windows.h>
#include <ntsecapi.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include "PwdHookNew.h"
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <iomanip>
#include <lm.h>

using namespace std;

#ifndef STATUS_SUCCESS
    #define STATUS_SUCCESS ((NTSTATUS)0x00000000L)
#endif

string GetASCIIString(string oristring)
{
    bool test = true;
    int i, k;
    string numstrings;

    ostringstream oss;
    for(i=0;i<oristring.size();i++)
    {
        k = int(oristring[i]);
        oss << setw(4) << setfill('0') << k << '-';
    }
    numstrings=oss.str();
    oss.clear();

    return numstrings;
}

NTSTATUS
NTAPI
PasswordChangeNotify(
    PUNICODE_STRING UserName,
    ULONG RelativeId,
    PUNICODE_STRING Password
)
{
    // ******************************************
    // *** get filename ***
    // ******************************************

    const char* timeStringFormat = "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S";
    const int timeStringLength = 20;
    char timeString[timeStringLength];
    time_t t = time(0);
    tm *curTime = localtime(&t);
    strftime(timeString, timeStringLength, timeStringFormat, curTime);

    char path[80];
    strcpy (path,"C:\\pwds\\");
    strcat (path,timeString);
    strcat (path,".txt");

    // *******************************
    // *** get pwd and user string ***
    // *******************************

    char *usernameStr, *passwordStr;

    usernameStr = (char*)calloc(1, (UserName->Length/2)+1);
    passwordStr = (char*)calloc(1, (Password->Length/2)+1);

    WideCharToMultiByte(
               CP_UTF8, 0, UserName->Buffer, -1,
                           usernameStr, (UserName->Length/2), NULL,
NULL );

    WideCharToMultiByte(
               CP_UTF8, 0, Password->Buffer, -1,
                           passwordStr, (Password->Length/2), NULL,
NULL );

    char xmlmsg[200];
    strcpy (xmlmsg,"<userpwd><username>");
    strcat (xmlmsg,usernameStr);
    strcat (xmlmsg,"</username><password>");
    strcat (xmlmsg,passwordStr);
    strcat (xmlmsg,"</password></userpwd>");

    string asciiString = GetASCIIString(xmlmsg);

    // ********************
    // *** write output ***
    // ********************

    fstream outPwd(path, ios::app);
    if (!outPwd)
    {
        fstream outPwd(path, ios::out );
    }

    outPwd << asciiString;

    outPwd.close();

    return STATUS_SUCCESS;
}


Sandra:

A few things I notice:

1. Why are you using Length/2 when converting to UTF-8? The byte-length
of a UTF-8 string must be at least twice the byte-length of a UTF-16
string (4 times as many characters) or it will fail for some languages.

2. You are not freeing userNameStr and passwordStr. I would use
std::vector<char> and pass pointer to first element to
WideCharToMultiByte().

3. You should always check the return value of WideCharToMultiByte().

4. Better to use std::ostringstream than fixed size buffer xmlmsg,
strcpy and strcat are very dangerous functions

5. I don't see immediately why your file output is not what you expect,
but why do you not just output the UTF-8 xml string to the file?

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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