so my vigenere cipher seems to work for uppercase letters but for some lowercase letters, it returns � for some reason. The code for lowercase and uppercase is structurally similar therefore I don't know why this is happening so I would appreciate if anyone has any input on this.
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What you are finding is a lesser known issue. A char behaves numerically like an 8-bit signed integer. When a char's numeric value gets to 128 or more, the first, most significant bit becomes a 1 and the system treats it like a negative number in two's complement form. Once you assign a value of 128 or more to a char, as you did with temp = temp + shifted[wrap%klength];, it goes negative, but you are still treating it as a positive. So, the result is not what you expect.
If the combination of a lower case letter and the shift key is large enough, you can easily exceed 127.
You need to modify your code to make sure that the value of any variable defined as a char never exceeds 127, or that you deal with it when it does.
Have you done the caesar's problem, that's should be you're base code as you will just need to modify it accepting instead of a key number, it would be a value from 0..26 where 0 is A.
And as I've looked in to you're code you didn't wrap it in modulo 26. The modulo does wrap you're number in a specific limit or in other mathematical word it will return the remainder of the division of two points. For example 13 % 12 is equal to 1, and 1 % 12 is equal to 1, and so on etc. And also you didn't use the formula of caesar to easily manipulate the code base.
Where the formula for caesar and vigenere is:
c = (j + k) % 26
You should check the instruction video that is included in the problem set, the answer is all there where Zamyla explain. She also showed a small snippet of code there.
