register_uformat(3)

okay so bestie, welcome to register_uformat(3) from the Allegro manual 💖 this is the one where you install handler functions for a whole new text encoding format, and it's lowkey iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

register_uformat — Installs handler functions for a new text encoding format. Allegro game programming library.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

void register_uformat(int type, int (*u_getc)(const char *s), int
(*u_getx)(char **s), int (*u_setc)(char *s, int c), int (*u_width)(const
char *s), int (*u_cwidth)(int c), int (*u_isok)(int c));

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this function installs a set of custom handler functions for a new text encoding format. The type is the ID code for your new format, and it should be a 4-character string as produced by the AL_ID() macro. That type can later be passed to functions like set_uformat() and uconvert(). The function parameters are handlers that implement the character access for your new type: see below for details of these.

Those handler params are the u_getc, u_getx, u_setc, u_width, u_cwidth, and u_isok functions from the synopsis, and they're doing the character-access work for your new format. 🫶

heads up: the page says see below for details of these, so that's the lore, bestie. periodt.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• set_uformat(3)
• uconvert(3)
• ugetc(3)
• ugetx(3)
• usetc(3)
• uwidth(3)
• ucwidth(3)
• uisok(3)

and that's the whole page, periodt. Allegro, version 4.4.3, page register_uformat(3) — that's the footer vibe, no extra date, so we slay and go. 💖✨🎀