From:	Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject:	Re: accessing IBM xtended ASCII set
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Posted and emailed to AMIR <amir AT cpsc DOT ucalgary DOT ca>:

>i am using the 
>
>_farpeekb (_dos_ds, rom_char_set + offset)
>
>where rom_char_set = char *ffa6e

No. BIOS does not guarantee that the ROM 8x8 bold character set is
stored at 0xffa6e.  It's at wherever the int 0x43 vector says it is.

>now I am in graphics mode 105h and I am trying to display text to the
>user. Because this is a course and the prof wants us to display a
>"fancy" border, I was just wondering how I would access the xtended IBM
>char set because I can only get the 1st 128 characters to properly
>display and when I access the rest beyond the 128 I just get junk pixel
>maps...

They're stored elsewhere in ROM; a pointer to them is in the int 0x1f
vector.  Ralf Brown's interrupt list gives the answer:
  int 0x43 and int 0x1f at  http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm

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