International Support

AllenConquest · Post by **AllenConquest** » March 24th, 2005, 1:14 pm

Can LCDSmartie display foreign accented characters like "?" and "?" ?

Glen · Post by **Glen** » March 24th, 2005, 2:00 pm

LCD Smartie can, for example: hold "ALT" and the press "0233" on the numpad for " ? " on a normal line.. depending what LCD you have though it might not support it.. you could also look in your LCD manual (or find a manual online) and find the character then put in a call for that particular character number in Smartie each LCD has different numbers for non standard characters... for example on my particular LCD: $Chr(245) gives me " ? " but the LCD smartie preview window gives me " ? " which is the standard ASCI character for that combination (ALT + 0245).

there's also custom characters.. for example "$CustomChar(1,10,0,14,17,31,16,14,0)" will get you " ? "

Post by **limbo** » March 24th, 2005, 3:04 pm

Glen is absolutely right!

It's the LCD that contains the characters (you may find a character table on your LCD manufacturer) not the LCD SMARTIE.
The Smartie supports "characters like "?" and "?"" but this depends on your LCD screen.

For example one of my screens have Chinese characters

Just in case that your LCD screen doesn't contain the characters you need you can create up to 8 custom characters using the $CustomChar function as Glen mentioned.

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » March 24th, 2005, 3:33 pm

Most HD44780 Displays have the same character set. Just look up on the internet.

AllenConquest · Post by **AllenConquest** » March 24th, 2005, 5:27 pm

Well thanks for the quick responses.

What I didn't explain is that I've written a plugin to display information on LCDSmartie and one of the end-users has reported this to me. So it's not my display, and it's not going to be just one display type. So does that mean coding differences for every display type out there ?

How can I used custom characters from within my plugin ?

Post by **limbo** » March 25th, 2005, 11:06 am

Some displays have different character sets build in...

Of course you can use custom characters on your plug in.

You must notice about the following
http://www.lansley.co.uk/forum/phpBB2/v ... c.php?t=17

AllenConquest · Post by **AllenConquest** » March 26th, 2005, 10:22 pm

Where can I find a grid layout of accented characters so I can generate my own custom character ?

Post by **limbo** » March 26th, 2005, 11:53 pm

Here you can find a download link for a good program

http://www.lansley.co.uk/forum/phpBB2/v ... c.php?t=39

Also a description on main LCD SMARTIE SITE
Scroll down and check the first page!