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Subject: Re: ALLEGRO + DEGUI + viewing some characters
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Michael Abbott aka frEk wrote:

> Heya
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I just wondered how can I show ä's and ö's
> > (a with two dots and o with two dots)
> >
> > In GFX_TEXT -mode it works fine, but
> > when I use DEGUI routines (edit_text_class),
> > I cant view those characters. Should I hack
> > the code of DEGUI so that it accepts
> > those characters or what?
>
> I'm not sure, but I believe that Allegro (which Degui works on top of,
> right?) only supports 128 characters... I tried getting character 196 (a
> horizontal line), etc. to work but they just seemed to place the
> characters under the 128 belt :(

We use spanish accents here! so it works. I did it a long time ago so I don't
remmember how exactly is the procedure, but if I recall OK you must replace the
default Allegro font by one with 256 characters. Allegro uses a pointer, is just
a matter of assign it to the complete font.

SET

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