A Few Alternate Functions

[OniLink10]

Why not just use sprites like a sane person?  They look better anyways.

Not if you're doing something that requires user input... you'd need to make a This-Time-It's-Interpreted GM program to dump all 255 characters of a font as a strip >.< (Since I'm too lazy to do it in Win32 API... but wait, SDL_TTF sounds feasible, or even... implement that in cpp<{ }> tags! Yes, I hope they get standardised in engima like that.)

Most of the 255 Characters are Unneeded. The First Character in a Font? NULL.

[score_under]

Well, 223 characters then.
That's so we can get "ß" german letters, "ÿ" and whatever THAT thing is. And then £ (A3 ascii, or 8192 unicode) too.

[OniLink10]

Well, 223 characters then.
That's so we can get "ß" german letters, "ÿ" and whatever THAT thing is. And then £ (A3 ascii, or 8192 unicode) too.

Let's see...
Chars 0-31: Unneeded Characters.
Chars 32-126: The Main 95 Characters used in Text Files.
Char 127: DELETE, Unneeded.
Chars 128-175: Other useful Characters, including Foreign Characters.
Chars 176-223: Random Lines and Dots. Unneeded.
Chars 224-253: Other Useful Characters.
Chars 254-255: Unknown Characters. Unneeded.

Total Useful Characters: 173/256
Nice Estimation, but it was off. I used http://www.asciitable.com/

[score_under]

Chars 0-31: Unneeded Characters.
Chars 32-126: The Main 95 Characters used in Text Files.
Char 127: DELETE, Unneeded.
Chars 128-175: Other useful Characters, including Foreign Characters.
Chars 176-223: Random Lines and Dots. Unneeded.
Chars 224-253: Other Useful Characters.
Chars 254-255: Unknown Characters. Unneeded.

176-223 are either foreign or mathematical characters, 176 being the degree sign and 223 being the german "sharp S".
254: Lowercase thorn
255: Lowercase "y" with an umlaut on top (or whatever it's called where they use that letter)

You are using the old DOS codepages.

[OniLink10]

Chars 0-31: Unneeded Characters.
Chars 32-126: The Main 95 Characters used in Text Files.
Char 127: DELETE, Unneeded.
Chars 128-175: Other useful Characters, including Foreign Characters.
Chars 176-223: Random Lines and Dots. Unneeded.
Chars 224-253: Other Useful Characters.
Chars 254-255: Unknown Characters. Unneeded.

176-223 are either foreign or mathematical characters, 176 being the degree sign and 223 being the german "sharp S".
254: Lowercase thorn
255: Lowercase "y" with an umlaut on top (or whatever it's called where they use that letter)

You are using the old DOS codepages.

Argh! Darn it!

[RetroX]

As far as I'm aware, ENIGMA and GM use those characters.

[score_under]

That's ridiculous - the only 2 programs I know which use it are NFO Scroller and the windows command line.

Still, if they do use those characters, it would explain why it couldn't print "£" in Game Maker.

[Josh @ Dreamland]

If I may, I believe 167 is what you meant, not 176. Also, it's not a degree sign. Render it large, you'll see an underline. Degree sign is 248.

[RetroX]

I don't even know what the hell I was replying to when I posted that. -_-

[score_under]

If I may, I believe 167 is what you meant, not 176. Also, it's not a degree sign. Render it large, you'll see an underline. Degree sign is 248.

Alt+0176 = °
Alt+0167 = §
Alt+0248 = ø

...yeah.

[Josh @ Dreamland]

Ah, you inputted the zero along with it. Try without the zero.

[score_under]

Alt+176 = ｰ
Alt+167 = ｧ
Alt+248 = ø

But that's because without a zero and under 256 makes it use the DOS codepage, and I have mine set to Japanese.

[Rusky]

well then

[Josh @ Dreamland]

>_<"

What Rusky said.