Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From: manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: Allegro, Ansi, TTF2PCX and Umlauts
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Thank you, Shawn!

Things are clearer now. But the problem persists:
As I said, I don't have any trouble getting the in-source strings come out 
right (I use UltraEdit, which allows any kind of encoding I can think of).

But when I do something like

(Pseudocode):
char c=readkey() & 0xff;
textprintf ("%c", c);

all I get is garbage as soon as I press some Umlaut-key (the default font 
shows '^', which is the default when some character cannot be found, and the 
converted ttf font shows a square). It makes no difference which uformat I 
use.

All I need is sufficient support for the German character set, I don't think 
that we will ever be selling to Japan.

Another problem I just discovered are tabs: In former versions (3.11) I could 
textprintf a tab with no trouble, but in 3.95 a '\t' will also come out as 
'^'. Is this a related problem?

TIA,


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Manni