#cocomm
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Bit recognition works fine, as long as you use the default font.
Once beyond that…you'd have to do the comparison between the bits on
screen with the font file and then save the ASCII character. What's really
needed is for the text routines to also write the ASCII character to
non-displayed character mapped 'screen'. We all know how slow the text
routines are right now…imagine how much they'd slow down if they also had
to keep this 2nd memory area updatted including scrolling, clearing, cursor
positioning and which window and/or screen was in front. In other words, a
major can of worms.