designing your own characters in C++?

[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

[Ole Nielsby]

Andy Leese <an****@lycos.comwrote:

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.

[red floyd]

Andy Leese wrote:

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.

[Philip Potter]

red floyd wrote:

Andy Leese wrote:

>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.

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.