ah! thanks! That makes sense.
I tried changing: md5.update(x)
to: md5.update(x, 'utf8')
and I get the right answer.
I (wrongly) assumed the encoding to be default utf8 since that's what most
functions in the 'fs' module have as the default.
Thanks!
-Dhruv.
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:00:03 PM UTC+5:30, mscdex wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 4:10 am, dhruvbird <dhruvb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > but:
> > x='Велихов,_Евгений_Павлович.jpeg'
> > c = require('crypto')
> > md5 = c.createHash('md5')
> > md5.update(x)
> > md5.digest('hex')
> >
> > shows: 2fb2004e85d734547647e45a72863d13
>
> It's a character encoding problem when you're pasting the string as-
> is. If you use the raw bytes, you will get the right answer:
>
> crypto.createHash('md5').update(new
> Buffer([0xD0,0x92,0xD0,0xB5,0xD0,0xBB,0xD0,0xB8,0xD1,0x85,0xD0,0xBE,
> 0xD0,0xB2,0x2C,0x5F,0xD0,0x95,0xD0,0xB2,0xD0,0xB3,0xD0,0xB5,0xD0,0xBD,
> 0xD0,0xB8,0xD0,0xB9,0x5F,0xD0,0x9F,0xD0,0xB0,0xD0,0xB2,0xD0,0xBB,
> 0xD0,0xBE,0xD0,0xB2,0xD0,0xB8,0xD1,0x87,0x2E,0x6A,
> 0x70,0x65,0x67])).digest('hex');
>
> // in a REPL this correctly displays:
> '2d20149202635b06b67af28545739192'
>
> You can use a module like iconv/iconv-lite to convert between
> encodings.
>
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