SOLVED! Looking for a 5x8 LCD extended ASCII font — characters 32-255

Using Arduino Displays
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Hi!

I'm looking for a 6x8 font which includes the extended ASCII characters as described at http://www.ascii-code.com
Languages like French and Spanish use many letters with accents which are in the extended ASCII characters set.

The extended ASCII codes (character code 128-255)
There are several different variations of the 8-bit ASCII table. The table below is according to ISO 8859-1, also called ISO Latin-1. Codes 129-159 contain the Microsoft® Windows Latin-1 extended characters.

I've tried different solutions:

  • using MikroElectronica free font generator and importing a Windows font. The Terminal font doesn't include the extended ASCII characters and the other fonts don't feature a 6x8 size.
  • reducing 8x8 to 6x8 with the same tool. Too many letters are impossible to read.
  • looking for a fixed-sized Windows font with 6x8 size. Google throws too many false-positive results.
  • designing the characters from 128 to 255. But it's slow and requires a lot of time!

Thank you for your help.

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designing the characters from 128 to 255. But it's slow and requires a lot of time!

Like Nike says: Just Do It!

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The Terminal font doesn't include the extended ASCII characters and the other fonts don't feature a 6x8 size.

Maybe the software does not support extended character set as it's in my Terminal font.

Terminal Font.jpg

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For my Arduino graphics lib "u8glib" i have include several 100 fonts. Most of them with extended chars.
http://code.google.com/p/u8glib/wiki/fontsize

I decided to derive the internal font format from the plain text font format "bdf".

BDF is not that common, but still a lot of fonts are available and BDF can also be derived from TTF.

U8glib includes a bdf converter and bdf font procedures.
All in all u8glib can display any glyph from unicode space.

Oliver

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CrossRoads:

designing the characters from 128 to 255. But it's slow and requires a lot of time!

Like Nike says: Just Do It!

...what's the ASCII code for the swash? :slight_smile:

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@Oliver

Thank you for the useful links!

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u8glib is distributed under the BSD license. So all the code could be used in other projects also. Just take over the code from here:
http://code.google.com/p/u8glib/source/browse/csrc/u8g_font.c
Then you could use any existing u8glib font.

Oliver

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Nike swoosh, for 8x8 font 8)
1e, 3f, 7f, cf, 0f,0e, 1c, 38

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Finally, it took the last solution,

designing the characters from 128 to 255. But it's slow and requires a lot of time!

with MikroElectronica free font generator

Actually, there are only 64 additional characters to define, 0xA0 to 0xFF on the ISO-8859-1 tablea.

I'm not using the Arduino IDE, so the characters are coded in UTF8 and need to be translated into ISO-8859-1.

Thanks for your help, links and ideas!