How would you load unprintable characters into a register.
I want to do this:

Instead of:

In this case just:

will do what you want.
More universal solution:

But how is this related to the title of your post?

ok, thanks. Hmm, didn't know it would add the zero byte if you did: mov word [esi],'d' . I couldn't find any information on this in the fasm docs. I'm writing some number conversion routines for a 32bit asm/dos library that I am writing and wanted to save some typing.