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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Nov 1999.
Re: "alt symbols"

Re: "alt symbols"

Krogg kirjoitti viestiss� <382...@gtcom.net>...

>You would be well advised to forget about alt+xxxx chars
>unless you REALLY need them real bad and will just die
>if you cant use them or you are a DOS programmer making
>something with a textmode GUI or just dont really care
>if what you type in looks remotely the same on someone
>elses system when they arent using the same font you
>are using.

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.

I remember that there was a list of ascii symbols in the faq?

--
Lauri Kangas - 39143317
<lkanga @ mbnet.fi>
-----------------------
"I don't care WHO you
are but your not walking
on the water while
I'm fishing"

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From: "Lauri Kangas" <lkanga @ mbnet.fi>
Subject: Re: "alt symbols"
Date: 1999/11/09
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