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International keyboard support (Developers)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 15.02.2023, 21:31

> > according to WGL4 all European/American character sets sum to just about
> > 700 different symbols; certainly doable.
>
> IIRC VGA has some 512 char capability (sacrificing a bit of the
> color/attribute byte), so if you can reduce that set, textmode should be
> ok:-)

that's right. however, displaying 512 chars is about as complex as displaying 16x8 graphical chars. the latter scales better.

 

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