Encoding for LCD Displays?

[Ulrich_Bogun]

Has someone figured out what encoding to choose for a LCD display that’s driven via Paul’s GPIO module? I have already produced a nice collection of different characters but never the umlauts I wanted to show …

[Paul_Lefebvre]

I don’t think it’s an encoding as much as a specific byte you’ll have to send to get a specific character from its limited character set. The Data Sheet for the LCD might help.

[J_Andrew_Lipscomb]

On that data sheet, the “European” characters follow 8859-1/WinANSI except in the control ranges (and a very badly drawn þorn), and the Japanese characters match Shift-JIS.

[James_Sentman]

ah… badly drawn porn, the bane of computer programmers everywhere

[Jean-Yves_Pochez]

on such LCD, you can make your own characters if the one in rom does not fit you
you need to read carefully the datasheet Paul gave you.

[Ulrich_Bogun]

Thanks, all! After trying a ConvertEncoding with as good as every encoding available I managed to make the degreee ° show up but not the umlauts – think I’ll try a hard replaceAll with them like Paul proposed.