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 Post subject: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 3:10 am 
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I tried to print it just like normal character, but it displays me a blank white character. Can i print them by printing their ASCII codes?

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:07 am 
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just like normal character
Define "normal". Which exact character are you trying to print using which method? There are many ways I know of, all of which considered normal depending on context, and several of them work fundamentally different when it comes to non-alphanumeric characters.

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:52 am 
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Combuster wrote:
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just like normal character
Define "normal". Which exact character are you trying to print using which method? There are many ways I know of, all of which considered normal depending on context, and several of them work fundamentally different when it comes to non-alphanumeric characters.

I'm using standard terminal_putchar function, normal chars is 'a', '!', '_', just anything except pseudographic. I'm trying to print a borders for my window, but it displays me blank chars.

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:02 am 
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Well, that's what you get for blindly trusting tutorials. It was pretty easy to find though, here's a hint:
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-uint16_t c16 = c;
+uint16_t c16 = (uint8_t)c;

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
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Are you typing/pasting the pseudographic characters directly into your source code, or are you using character codes? The former won't work since the character encodings (some form of Unicode, probably UTF-8) used by your editor/IDE won't match the character positions in the VGA ROM (the "IBM extended ASCII" set)...

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
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Are you sure, you use pseudographics from ASCII, not Unicode?

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
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mallard wrote:
Are you typing/pasting the pseudographic characters directly into your source code, or are you using character codes? The former won't work since the character encodings (some form of Unicode, probably UTF-8) used by your editor/IDE won't match the character positions in the VGA ROM (the "IBM extended ASCII" set)...

Isn't UTF-8 compatible with ASCII (i.e. ASCII symbols in Unicode are just one-byte ASCII)?

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
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Isn't UTF-8 compatible with ASCII (i.e. ASCII symbols in Unicode are just one-byte ASCII)?


UTF-8 is compatible with standard 7-bit ASCII, but not the full 8-bit "IBM extended ASCII" set.

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
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mallard wrote:
Roman wrote:
Isn't UTF-8 compatible with ASCII (i.e. ASCII symbols in Unicode are just one-byte ASCII)?


UTF-8 is compatible with standard 7-bit ASCII, but not the full 8-bit "IBM extended ASCII" set.

Thanks! I didn't know about the extended set. I always thought ASCII only takes 7 bits.

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:49 am 
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I'm now tried to print char code, but now it displays me that: (' ' is the blank char, and * is some char that i can't print)
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
;window caption ;
<LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLK
;window text ;
; ;
; ;
; ;
; ;
*LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
It displays me a wrong characters! There's a code of drawObj function:
Code:
void drawObj(window target)
{
   terminal_setcolor(26);
   goToPos(target.x, target.y);
   terminal_putchar(0xAD);
   for(size_t topcount = 0; topcount < target.width - 2; topcount++)
   {
      terminal_putchar(0x4C);
   }
   terminal_putchar(0xFB);
   for(size_t middlecount = 1; middlecount < target.height - 2; middlecount++)
   {
      goToPos(target.x, target.y+middlecount);
      terminal_putchar(0x3B);
      for(size_t middlecount2 = 0; middlecount2 < target.width - 2; middlecount2++)
      {
         terminal_putchar(' ');
      }
      terminal_putchar(0x3B);
   }
   goToPos(target.x, target.y+target.height-2);
   terminal_putchar(0x0C);
   for(size_t bcount = 0; bcount < target.width - 2; bcount++)
   {
      terminal_putchar(0x4C);
   }
   terminal_putchar(0x9D);
   goToPos(target.x, target.y+2);
   terminal_putchar(0x3C);
   for(size_t captioncount = 0; captioncount < target.width - 2; captioncount++)
   {
      terminal_putchar(0x4C);
   }
   terminal_putchar(0x4B);
   terminal_setcolor(26);
   goToPos(target.x,target.y);
   size_t newy = 0;
   terminal_setcolor(26);
   goToPos(target.x+1, target.y+1);
   terminal_writestring(target.caption);
   terminal_setcolor(26);
   goToPos(target.x+1, target.y + 3);
   terminal_writestring(target.text);
}

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:50 am 
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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:55 am 
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catnikita255 wrote:
It displays me a wrong characters!
Looks right to me.
Code:
0C ♀
3B ;
3C <
4B K
4C L
9D ¥
AD ¡
FB √
What kind of ASCII chart are you using, anyway?


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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
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Octocontrabass wrote:
catnikita255 wrote:
It displays me a wrong characters!
Looks right to me.
Code:
0C ♀
3B ;
3C <
4B K
4C L
9D ¥
AD ¡
FB √
What kind of ASCII chart are you using, anyway?

I don't know, i'm found ASCII codes of pseudographic in Wikipedia, and it dispayed me a blank chars, then i'm typed their ASCII codes in reverse order, and it showed me that. I'll try to type them in normal order.

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:05 am 
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Now it displays me only blank chars instead of window borders.

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 Post subject: Re: How to print pseudographic symbols?
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:08 am 
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Combuster wrote:
Well, that's what you get for blindly trusting tutorials. It was pretty easy to find though, here's a hint:
Code:
-uint16_t c16 = c;
+uint16_t c16 = (uint8_t)c;


Did you fix this yet?

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