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Nitpicking:

The CGA 8x8 font had a number of "foreign" (non-ascii) characters that could be displayed in 640x200 or 320x200 text modes. All (?) European though.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/viler-int10h/CGA-font-comp...

From IBM's technical manual:

  * 16 special characters for game support
  * 15 characters for word-processing editing support
  * 96 characters for the standard ASCII graphics set
  * 48 characters for foreign-language support
  * 48 characters for business block-graphics support (for the drawing of charts, boxes, and tables using single and double lines)
  * 16 selected Greek characters
  * 15 selected scientific-notation characters

(https://minuszerodegrees.net/oa/OA%20-%20IBM%20Color%20Graph...)

...although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Internationaliza... reaches the conclusion that it only e.g. English, Germany and Swedish are fully supported due the lack of upper-case accented latin characters. Huh, TIL.

parent tpmx 3 years ago

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