From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: using allegro fonts with characters greater than 128
Organization: Pin Eight Software  http://pineight.8m.com/
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:58:42 GMT, Kaeru the Frog
<kaeruthefrog AT nycap DOT rr DOT com> wrote:

>i loaded my project's data file in grabber and added a font. it used
>the default 8x8 font. i exported the font to a .bmp and edited some of
>the chraracters higher than 128. i then saved it as a .bmp and imported
>it to my datafile. every thing higher than the tilde is the original 8x8
>font, which is how grabber.txt said it would. why are the fonts limited
>to characters 32-128 while the default font goes all the way up to 255?
>can i have custom charactes over 128?

Are you using Allegro WIP 3.9.x?  If so, the fonts can have multiple
ranges of characters covering all of Unicode.  If not, upgrade.
  http://alleg.sourceforge.net/allegro/wip.html