From: "Damian Yerrick" <die DOT spammers AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Latin 1 in ALLEGRO; Mac wrapper needed
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 14:30:58 -0500
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Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>8 snip

> Future versions of Allegro will support Unicode, using UTF8 text
> encoding by default, but can be set to work with fixed size 8 bit
> or 16 bit characters. You can get this code in the

So how will I load a 16-bit font? 8-bit fonts are already huge
enough, and now we'll all be making them 256 times bigger?

> work-in-progress version available on the Allegro site, and
> read www.unicode.org to find more info about what Unicode is.
>
> Please don't post messages in HTML format, by the way.

Yeah, why does Micr0$oft even give us this option? Only
spammers enable HTML messages on purpose, to put
colored text and graphics into their sales pitches.

> Shawn Hargreaves.

I don't know why some fellows put down Allegro on this NG; it's
completely illogical. Allegro for DJGPP is one of the best
driver libraries I've seen on PC DOS. Anyone know how to
port an Allegro game to Macintosh? (I want to turn DOSArena
into MacArena.)

Damian Yerrick
http://come.to/yerrick
But am I using Allegro properly?