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International Support
Posted: March 24th, 2005, 1:14 pm
by AllenConquest
Can LCDSmartie display foreign accented characters like "?" and "?" ?
Posted: March 24th, 2005, 2:00 pm
by Glen
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 " ? "
Posted: March 24th, 2005, 3:04 pm
by limbo
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.
Posted: March 24th, 2005, 3:33 pm
by _X7JAY7X_
Most HD44780 Displays have the same character set. Just look up on the internet.
Posted: March 24th, 2005, 5:27 pm
by AllenConquest
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 ?
Posted: March 25th, 2005, 11:06 am
by limbo
Some displays have different character sets build in...
Of course you can use custom characters on your plug in.
Posted: March 26th, 2005, 10:22 pm
by AllenConquest
Where can I find a grid layout of accented characters so I can generate my own custom character ?
Posted: March 26th, 2005, 11:53 pm
by limbo
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!