ISO8859_1 handling problems

Hi,
In the following example,running on Tini,

String message=the greek capital alphabet
char[] chars=new char[message.length()];
message.getChars(0,message.length(),chars,0);
int[] code=new int[chars.length];
for(int i=0;i<code.length;i++){
code[i]=(int)chars[i];
}

i get the following results

code[0]=145 or (0x91) 	(this is the capital greek ALPHA which in ISO8859_1
has 0x0391 code)
code[1]=146 or (0x92)	(this is the capital greek BETA which in ISO8859_1 has
0x0392 code)
.
.
.

Looks like only the low order byte is taken into account.

On the other side if i use
System.out.println((int)'the greek capital alpha character'), i get the
right result,913 or 0x391

Am i missing something?

Best Regards
Kostas Bouzianas


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