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Hello,

I'm back again, hopefully this time i'll stay tuned on OS-dev for a longer time.
Windows supports a variety of character-sets, I was wondering how that is possible... is it possible in my OS to get chinese-letters from the video-card? And how can I use that in my OS?

I was just wondering how this is done, i'm not going to use it... or even try to use it because i'm a newbie.

Peter.

In graphic mode you draw a font pixel by pixel yourself. Some libraries, e.g. freetype might help you with this.

Thanks for your reply. I thought DOS also supported character-sets?

Peter wrote: Thanks for your reply. I thought DOS also supported character-sets?

By redefining the characters in the VGA card, as discussed in this very recent thread:

http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.p ... eadid=9803

Peter wrote: Thanks for your reply. I thought DOS also supported character-sets?

for the case in windows, they can handle different character set if the encoding is in UNICODE and the proper font lib is installed too. For character sets other than UNICODE, you have to tell it what the default charset is so it will map automatically translate that for you.

For example, a simplified chinese character set based os can switch to tranditional chinese character set based os but most of the characters you see will be meaningless.

Ok, I understand. Thanks...