Re: "alt symbols"
Lauri Kangas wrote: > > 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? What looks like you want is the dos character set. You can download this small(4kb) tsr that will show you all the dos characters from my site. http://www.gtcom.net/~krogg/storage/asc.zip run the program and tap the [alt] key twice and use the arrows to scroll up and down in the list. Be Cool, Krogg. -- |"""""<`.THE PRINCE ,'>"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""| | `.`/""""""\,',' my sig is too big, | |SEE HIS ( / \ \' SEE HIS but its really cool. | | FACE \/<> <>\/ SMILE | | / W \ Visit my ascii art site: | | ,'\_|||||_/`. http://www.gtcom.net/~krogg/ascii/ | | ,',' ||| `.`. kro...@gtcom.net | |____<,' TIME TO DIE `.>____Remove no.to.spam to reply____|
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,c54a4a18832fdb8e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Krogg <kro...@gtcom.net> Subject: Re: "alt symbols" Date: 1999/11/09 Message-ID: <382...@gtcom.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 546714728 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <807bgr$lvr$1...@news.kolumbus.fi> <382...@gtcom.net> <808ht5$lsj$1...@news.kolumbus.fi> X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB,en,ja Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 942200851 12.6.67.178 (Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:27:31 EST) Organization: 24hoursupport.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: kro...@gtcom.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:27:31 EST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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