Topic       : The ATARI Compendium
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                The Bitstream International Character Set


The vst_charmap() and vqt_get_table() functions provide access to the entire
Speedo character set by specifying characters as WORD size Bitstream index
values rather than BYTE size ASCII values. The following table lists the
available Bitstream Speedo index and ID numbers.

All current Atari calls refer to Bitstream indexes rather than character ID
There is an important difference between these two Characters never change
ID numbers between fonts, however they may change index positions. When
specifying character indexes with Atari calls it is important to note which
character set the font was created with to provide accurate mapping. The
following table lists indexes for the most common set, the Bitstream
International Character Set represented in the typeface 'Swiss 721'.


    Indexes ∙The first column of the table
is index of the first character
in each row.

The number under each character
stands for the character ID.


    0 - 239   Part 1
  240 - 449   Part 2
  450 - 563   Part 3