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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Nov 1999.
Re: "alt symbols"
> The problem is that I'm making some ascii-art in our
> text adventure game (dos), and dos uses an AMERICAN
> keyboard. Ex. when i press � it gives you an \ or something.

DOS does whatever keyboard you have it set up to , and if you have'nt changed that to finnish
it will show it in it's default - american.

I have my DOS set to Danish and pressing an � gives me an �.

But if you're making text art for a DOS game you migth want to use MORE than just plain ascii -
DOS have so many good drawing character you can use.

You can see many of theese with charmap (viewing the font called terminal .. ie DOS) but it
will not show you characters before alt+032 .. and thoose characters are really good for DOS
drawing.
And its display is too small and the interface is not too good either.

I use a freeware program called Character Map Pro .. It's imho the best fontviewer there is.

I can mail it to you if you'd like, or post it on a ftp.

I also know there's an old TSR DOS program called RAT - Resident Ascii Table that does the
trick too .. I used to have it but deleted it because i seldom do dos drawings .. and because i
could'nt run it under windows.

Kind Regards
CeeJay

No wait i'll refrase that - I mail it too you if you draw me a new mushroom ;)


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