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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.       __       wolfgang              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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