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(Added some V5/V6 charset format info from the SCUMM Reference Guide)
(V4 format is almost identical to the V5 format)
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=== V4 charset format ===
=== V4 charset format ===


TODO
The header looks as follows:
 
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!Size  !! Type            !! Description
|-
|2      ||                || unknown
|-
|15    || bytes          || colour map
|-
|1      || byte            || number of bits per pixel
|-
|3      ||                || unknown
|-
|1024  || 256*quad LE    || character data offsets
|}
 
Character glyphs may be 1, 2, 4 or 8 bits per pixel, and can be masked.
 
The colour map contains the colours each pixel of the character glyph
is drawn as. Pixel value 0 is used for transparency; the other values are
mapped using the color map in the header.
 
The character data pointers contain the offset, relative to the byte
after the end of the colour map (byte 29), of the character data.
This can be 0 if that particular character is not encoded in the character
set. The character data itself is formatted as follows:
 
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!Size  !! Type            !! Description
|-
|1      || byte            || width of character
|-
|1      || byte            || height of character
|-
|1      || byte            || X offset
|-
|1      || byte            || Y offset
|-
|many    || bytes...        || glyph data bitstream
|}
 
The X and Y offsets are added to the screen coordinates of the top-left
corner of the glyph before drawing. This is useful for, say, shadowed
text. Needless to say, glyphs don't all have to be the same size,
although in all the examples I have they are the same height.
 
The data bitstream encodes the pixels in the glyph in left-to-right,
top-to-bottom order. Multiple pixels are encoded per byte. The pixels
are arranged in big-endian format; so, the first pixel in the stream
is in the top bits of the first data byte; then the bits below that;
and so on. For example, at one bit per pixel:
 
<pre>
Bit position:  7      0 7      0 ...
Words of data: 01234567 89ABCDEF
</pre>
 
At two bits per pixel:
 
<pre>
Bit position:  7      0 7      0 ...
Words of data: 00112233 44556677
</pre>
 
And at four bits per pixel:
 
<pre>
Bit position:  7      0 7      1 ...
Words of data: 00001111 22223333
</pre>


=== V5/V6 charset format ===
=== V5/V6 charset format ===
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