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All of them have a similar but not identical symbol set at the positions 0 to 127 similar to US-ASCII.
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All of them have a similar but not identical symbol set at the positions 0 to 127 similar to US-ASCII.
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On the other hand symbols at places higher than 127 have mayor differences.
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On the other hand symbols at places higher than 127 have mayor differences.
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Until now we know of (and support):
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Until now we know of (and support):
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** 1.) HD44780 and similar with Kana charset A00 https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf Page 17
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* 1.) HD44780 and similar with Kana charset A00 https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf Page 17
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These are very common, but sadly not very useful when writing in European languages.
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These are very common, but sadly not very useful when writing in European languages.
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** 2.) HD44780 and similar with Western charset A02 https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf Page 18
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* 2.) HD44780 and similar with Western charset A02 https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf Page 18
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These are rare, but fairly useful for European languages. Also a limited number of Cyrillic symbols is available.
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These are rare, but fairly useful for European languages. Also a limited number of Cyrillic symbols is available.
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** 3.) HD44780 and similar with Cyrillic charset http://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=466 Page 14
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* 3.) HD44780 and similar with Cyrillic charset http://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=466 Page 14
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Some of our Russian friends use them.
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Some of our Russian friends use them.
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At all of them you can define 8 different symbols by yourself. In Marlin they are used for the Feedrate-, Thermometer-, ... symbols
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At all of them you can define 8 different symbols by yourself. In Marlin they are used for the Feedrate-, Thermometer-, ... symbols
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* Full graphic displays
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* Full graphic displays
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Currently we deal with 128x64 Pixel Displays and divide this area in about 5 Lines with about 22 columns.
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Currently we deal with 128x64 Pixel Displays and divide this area in about 5 Lines with about 22 columns.
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Therefore we need fonts with a bounding box of about 6x10.
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Therefore we need fonts with a bounding box of about 6x10.
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Until now we used a
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Until now we used a
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** 1.) Marlin-font similar to ISO10646-1 but with special Symbols at the end, what made 'ü' and 'ä' inaccessible, in the size 6x10.
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* 1.) Marlin-font similar to ISO10646-1 but with special Symbols at the end, what made 'ü' and 'ä' inaccessible, in the size 6x10.
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** 2.) Because these letters are to big for some locations on the info-screen we use a full ISO10646-1 font in the size of 6x9.
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* 2.) Because these letters are to big for some locations on the info-screen we use a full ISO10646-1 font in the size of 6x9.
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** 3.) When we define USE_BIG_EDIT_FONT we use an additional ISO10646-1 font with 9x18, eating up another 3120 bytes of progmem - but readable without glasses.
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* 3.) When we define USE_BIG_EDIT_FONT we use an additional ISO10646-1 font with 9x18, eating up another 3120 bytes of progmem - but readable without glasses.
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## The Languages
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## The Languages
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For the moment Marlin wants to support a lot of languages:
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For the moment Marlin wants to support a lot of languages:
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Other languages ether tried to avoid wording with their special symbols or ignored the problem at all and used the basic symbols without the accents, dots, ... whatever.
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Other languages ether tried to avoid wording with their special symbols or ignored the problem at all and used the basic symbols without the accents, dots, ... whatever.
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## The (partial) Solution
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## The (partial) Solution
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On a 'perfect' system like Windows or Linux we'd dig out unifont.ttf and some code from the libraries and they'd do what we want. But we are on a embedded system with very limited resources. So we had to find ways so limit the used space (Alone unifont.ttf is about 12MB) and have to make some compromise.
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On a 'perfect' system like Windows or Linux we'd dig out unifont.ttf and some code from the libraries and they'd do what we want. But we are on a embedded system with very limited resources. So we had to find ways to limit the used space (Alone unifont.ttf is about 12MB) and have to make some compromise.
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### Aims:
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### Aims:
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* 1.) Make the input for translators as convenient as possible. (Unicode UTF8)
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* 1.) Make the input for translators as convenient as possible. (Unicode UTF8)
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## User Instructions
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## User Instructions
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Define your hardware and the wanted language in 'Configuration.h'.
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Define your hardware and the wanted language in 'Configuration.h'.
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To find out what charset you harware is define language 'test' and compile. In the menu you will see two lines from the upper half of the charset.
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To find out what charset your hardware is define language 'test' and compile. In the menu you will see two lines from the upper half of the charset.
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* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_JAPAN locks like "バパヒビピフブプヘベペホボポマミ"
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* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_JAPAN locks like "バパヒビピフブプヘベペホボポマミ"
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* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_WESTERN locks like "ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß"
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* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_WESTERN locks like "ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß"
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* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_CYRILIC locks like "РСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ"
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* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_CYRILIC locks like "РСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ"
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