PHP "8bit" character set?

[ccou...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'm trying to use "userfrost" on Quercus, but I'm facing a few issues.

One of them is the handling of passwords, where the php contains the following commands:

mb_strlen($binary_string, '8bit')

mb_substr($binary_string, $start, $length, '8bit')


Unfortunately 8bit is not recognized in Java, so I tried to change 8bit to UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, but the encrypted passwords ends-up being simple '0' which prevents me from using the whole php library.

Is there any way to workaround this? Like implementing a custom character set or replacing 8bit by something usable or the entire functions by something equivalent?

I'm new to php, so it's quite hard to find a replacement to such methods.

Thanks.

[Kaz Nishimura]

Did you enable unicode.semantics?  If you didn't, ISO-8859-1 should be binary transparent in Java.

[ccou...@gmail.com]

Thanks for your reply, I switched to ISO and it was more or less ok.

Unfortunately this framework (based on usercake) doesn't work well and has loads of bugs so I dropped it.

In comparison usercake works well without any modifications!