The character set is complete (even those faces are present), in the sources
see the file int10_memory.cpp for the respective tables.
But maybe they're using some special output for those characters,
or the ansi implementation eats them for some reason.

Game works fine for me. Doesn't seem to use ansi at all besides for
that very first screen (but that's in a different executable than the game).
What dosbox version are you using?

The game works, but the characters of the ASCII table have been replaced by others. The player should be a smilie, but instead he appears as the letters PS. NPCs should be black smilies, but they also appear as weird characters. The rest of symbols work fine because they are over the first 32 values of the table.

You need to create at least one character and then leave the guild to appear on the game map.

I have compiled Dosbox on Linux Ubuntu from source (v.0.65 stable version), without compilation errors.

Well by works i meant that i played the game (walking around with
that smilie). That is with 0.65 under windows.
Maybe somebody else with linux can test this game to see if it's
something linux specific. Though i wouldn't know how a character
missing could happen.

How curious. My Pc is a K6, and I'm using Gnome instead of KDE. If that matters.

The letters are "Pt", by the way, not PS. Sorry.

They're loading some custom fonts with .com files, but everything
should be working. Don't see how single characters could go wrong
in the way you describe.
Maybe you could post a screenshot (not that it matters, but i'd like to
see those funky characters 😀 )

Here is an screenshot. The rest of characters under the 32 mark that should be affected appear later in the game. This seems to be a minor nuisance for the game playability, but I kinda loved the smilie. The "Pt" just isn't as sexy. 😒

That seems to be character 0x9e for 0x01, doesn't make too much sense.
What is displayed if you press alt, type a 1 on the numblock, and release alt then?
This should display the face.

It displays the face on the prompt! That was weird. 😕

Well just got to mix those 😀
Maybe try a different core or something like that (core=dynamic on
an x86 system, for example).

I tried other all documented cores without luck, I don't know how to change the system to x86, or maybe I didn't understand you well.

No, it's just that the core=dynamic is only available on x86 systems
(pentium4/amdxp should do fine). Handles some things different,
so it might have some effect for the game, don't know.

Could someone with Linux try Dosbox with this game? I want to know if this problem is specific of my machine or not, before attempting to look for the bug myself. Thank you.

works fine here.
0.65
What did you type to the questions ?
(on startup ?)

If you mean questions of the game, I chose:

Difficulty Setting: 3
Color monitor: Y
AT compatible: Y
New Game
Create new character:
- Human
- Accept
- Fighter
- Name: Pt
- Accept
- Shortsword
- Leave Guild (and move around)

If you mean initialization of Dosbox, I use the attached config file.
Otherwise, please rephrase your question.

at my place there was a question about vga or ega graphics ?
(after the at compatible question)

That question doesn't appear here. I have no idea why that happens. 😐