exunicod(3)

💖 exunicod — Allegro manual, section 3 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual, section 3 — this is the page for exunicod, and it's literally all about Unicode string functions. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

exunicod — using Unicode string functions, courtesy of the Allegro game programming library. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

Example: exunicod

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this program is a whole demo of the 16-bit Unicode text encoding format working with Allegro. what it does is it takes a message that's been translated into different languages and scrolls them across the screen — and it pulls that off using an external font that actually contains all the characters needed to display those messages. no cap, it's giving multilingual main character energy. 🌈

and the thing you're supposed to notice? the Allegro Unicode string functions look just like the ones you'd find in the standard C library. the difference is these ones handle Unicode on every single platform. periodt. 💜

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• BITMAP(3)
• DATAFILE(3)
• END_OF_MAIN(3)
• FONT(3)
• SCREEN_H(3)
• SCREEN_W(3)
• allegro_error(3)
• allegro_init(3)
• allegro_message(3)
• blit(3)
• clear_to_color(3)
• create_bitmap(3)
• destroy_bitmap(3)
• font(3)
• install_int_ex(3)
• install_keyboard(3)
• install_timer(3)
• keypressed(3)
• load_datafile(3)
• replace_filename(3)
• rest(3)
• screen(3)
• set_gfx_mode(3)
• set_uformat(3)
• set_window_title(3)
• text_height(3)
• text_length(3)
• textout_ex(3)
• uconvert_ascii(3)
• unload_datafile(3)
• ustrcat(3)
• ustrcpy(3)
• ustrsize(3)
• ustrsizez(3)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this one's from <strong>Allegro</strong>, <strong>version 4.4.3</strong> — yeah, that's the vibe, that's the era, and honestly? iconic. go forth and Unicode. 💖✨