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Reply #15 Posted on: November 03, 2008, 09:05:11 pm
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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... :o 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.
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Reply #16 Posted on: November 04, 2008, 08:34:04 am

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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.
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Reply #17 Posted on: November 06, 2008, 06:34:10 pm
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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/
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Reply #18 Posted on: November 07, 2008, 12:28:29 pm

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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.
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Reply #19 Posted on: November 08, 2008, 07:59:26 pm
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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!
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Reply #20 Posted on: November 16, 2008, 06:58:59 pm

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As far as I'm aware, ENIGMA and GM use those characters.
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Reply #21 Posted on: November 19, 2008, 05:59:45 pm

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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.
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Reply #22 Posted on: December 06, 2009, 10:31:22 am

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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.
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Reply #23 Posted on: December 06, 2009, 02:20:14 pm

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I don't even know what the hell I was replying to when I posted that. -_-
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Reply #24 Posted on: December 06, 2009, 04:53:13 pm

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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.
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Reply #25 Posted on: December 06, 2009, 09:42:14 pm

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Ah, you inputted the zero along with it. Try without the zero.
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Reply #26 Posted on: December 08, 2009, 12:14:30 pm

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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.
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Reply #27 Posted on: December 08, 2009, 08:37:30 pm

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well then
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Reply #28 Posted on: December 08, 2009, 09:21:01 pm

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>_<"

What Rusky said.
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