From 1529c91b8048ad44948376743f07f7e8749ca40e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Oelckers <coelckers@zdoom.fake>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:33:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - fixed: FFont::GetChar was unable to handle 8 bit signed
 chars.

SVN r3556 (trunk)
---
 src/v_font.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/v_font.cpp b/src/v_font.cpp
index 29f2b3632c..b7d5392cd8 100644
--- a/src/v_font.cpp
+++ b/src/v_font.cpp
@@ -739,6 +739,11 @@ FRemapTable *FFont::GetColorTranslation (EColorRange range) const
 
 int FFont::GetCharCode(int code, bool needpic) const
 {
+	if (code < 0 && code >= -128)
+	{
+		// regular chars turn negative when the 8th bit is set.
+		code &= 255;
+	}
 	if (code >= FirstChar && code <= LastChar && (!needpic || Chars[code - FirstChar].Pic != NULL))
 	{
 		return code;