From: Damian Yerrick <DELCAPSyerricde AT pineight DOT 8mSOFTWARE DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ALLEGRO + DEGUI + viewing some characters
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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:12:24 GMT
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On 4 Nov 1999 10:30:45 GMT,
Forsberg Sakari <zacu AT cc DOT tut DOT fi> wrote:

> I just wondered how can I show ä's and ö's
> (a with two dots and o with two dots)

So you want to know how to display the glyphs for Latin 1 characters.

> 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 access
> those characters or what?

Recent versions of Allegro (the current WIP is 3.926) and later use
the Unicode UTF-8 encoding instead of ASCII. Try getting yourself a
text editor that supports UTF-8 and using it as your  code editor.
Type the ä's and ö's as UTF-8, and they should show up correctly in
Allegro and DEGUI.

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