umlaut and other special character

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sberk

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Posted: 8th Jul 2011 15:39 Edited at: 8th Jul 2011 17:42

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Hi,
I 'm trying to something like this

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local s_name as string
s_name = "ÖÄÜ"
text 10,10,s_name

However the Umlauts are not correctly displayed. Is there a simple way to achieve this?

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baxslash

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Posted: 8th Jul 2011 19:14

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I would look into the ASCII and CHAR commands.

This might help too:
http://www.asciitable.com/

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Grog Grueslayer

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Posted: 8th Jul 2011 19:20 Edited at: 8th Jul 2011 19:21

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The quick way is to pick a font that does have them with the SET TEXT FONT command.

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` Make the font Comic Sans
set text font "MS Comic Sans"

` Set the text size to 50
set text size 50

` Used $ instead to mean it's a string
s_name$ = "ÖÄÜ"
text 10,10,s_name$

wait key

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Rudolpho

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Posted: 9th Jul 2011 02:02

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Are you sure that works, Grog?
As I recall, you should use the second parameter of set text font to specify a certain charset that contains those characters mapped onto the ascii codes. East european or something I believe contains Å, Ä and Ö at least. There should be some available values for that parameter somewhere in the documentation.

Note however that it was years since I did this and things might have changed since then, so Grog might be correct.