designing your own characters in C++?

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Andy Leese

Is there a way of designing your own characters in C++? (For example some
foreign symbols with accents etc...)

I am relatively inexperienced in C++, but in other programming languages it
used to be possible to design your character on a grid and by using binary
for the cordinates program it into the computer and display it alongside
"normal" characters.

Does such a possibility exist for pure DOS please?

Cheers, Andy
 
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Ole Nielsby

Andy Leese said:
Is there a way of designing your own characters in C++?
(For example some foreign symbols with accents etc...)

I am relatively inexperienced in C++, but in other programming
languages it used to be possible to design your character on a
grid and by using binary for the cordinates program it into the
computer and display it alongside "normal" characters.

Does such a possibility exist for pure DOS please?

Try comp.os.msdos.programmer - this is not a C++ feature.
 
R

red floyd

Andy said:
Is there a way of designing your own characters in C++? (For example some
foreign symbols with accents etc...)

I am relatively inexperienced in C++, but in other programming languages it
used to be possible to design your character on a grid and by using binary
for the cordinates program it into the computer and display it alongside
"normal" characters.

Does such a possibility exist for pure DOS please?

Since C++ is Turing-complete, yes you can do it. However, the mechanism
is hardware or OS specific and therefore OT in comp.lang.c++.

As Ole suggested, try comp.os.msdos.programmer.
 
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Philip Potter

red said:
Since C++ is Turing-complete, yes you can do it.

What does that have to do with anything? Turing-complete means that it
can do any computation a Turing machine can do. I don't see how
character-set redesign is one of those computations.
 

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