OSDev.org

Hi !

I'm a beginner to kernel development and I use the vga text mode.
I would like to print the character μ but I don't know how do that. I found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 this character exist but I don't know how to find it in vga-card.
I'm requesting your help for indicate me the easier way to do that.

Thank you

If that character is embedded on the VGA, it will also be in the text mode font since it's a copy of the same thing. Basically the only thing you need to do to get a µ on screen is to do the equivalent of where E6 is the glyph index for µ and 0F is white-on-black, which is exactly the same as for drawing any other character to the screen.

What might be a problem however is that µ isn't part of ASCII, and has varying indexes in different text encodings, being E6 in VGA, B5 in ISO-8859-1 and windows, and 03BC (amongst others) in Unicode, so if you actually typed an µ in your text editor, chances are likely it's not stored as E6.

It works !

Thank you very very very much