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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 03:39:23 GMT
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Erik Ellingsson wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> We are two swedish boys, we are currently working with a project using
> DJGPP and ALLEGRO. Because -we are swedish we want to use ASCII
> characters in the function textout( ); The characters are between the
> value 128-255. Is this possible using ALLEGRO? and if it is possible
> how are we going to do this? Do we have to alter the keyboard
> settings/file or something like that?

1. Set your font to include whatever characters you need.
2. Use chars in the string to display those characters.

For example:
Say I created a font with "ò" in ANSI (not ASCII) #149.

To display this in Allegro:

textprintf(mybmp,myfont,myx,myy,mycolor,"oo%coo",149); /* this will
display "ooòoo" */

OR

sprintf(mystr,"oo%coo",149);
textout(mybmp,myfont,mystr,myx,myy,mycolor);

*note: I'm not sure as to the exact argument order.

-Mike