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   wolfgang kern to 32768hertz@nospicedham   
   Re: Assembly DBCS (double byte character   
   14 Nov 18 18:13:45   
   
   From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   32768hertz@nospicedham said:   
      
   |Hello,   
   |did anyone tried to make a font span two characters instead on one?   
   ...   
   many years ago I played around with wide character fonts, mainly used   
   to display Logos and sprites in standard (80*25/16*8) text mode.   
      
   I dont know any tool by name, but you may still find some old Asian.   
   But if you want your own method/style for font storage and display,   
   then you better build your own font create tool (isn't a big deal)   
   especially if you want a whole set of (or more than 256) doubled.   
      
   My logo where three 8*16 dot characters in the upper ASCII-set.   
   So I just displayed this 24*16 bmp by a direct write of 0x07a0,   
   0x07a1,0x07a2 to 0xb800:xxxx (it worked with INT0x10 as well).   
      
   but I use only graphic mode since almost three decades now.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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