Lcd printing 2 glitched letters

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Hi, im trying to print a random phrase on a display via bluetooth using a Arduino mega, hc-05, a display 16x2 attached with a PCF8574 microcontroller. But everytime time i try to send a phrase, the lcd prints 2 extra glitched letters. On serial monitor it is printing the phrase normally. Here is my code

#include <LiquidCrystal_PCF8574.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

SoftwareSerial bluetooth(18, 19);
LiquidCrystal_PCF8574 lcd(0x27);
char b;
String a;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600); 
  Serial1.begin(9600);
  bluetooth.begin(9600);
  Wire.begin();
  Wire.beginTransmission(0x27);
  lcd.begin(16, 2);
}

void loop() {
 
   lcd.setBacklight(255);
   while (Serial1.available()) {
   b = Serial1.read();
   a += b;
   }
   lcd.print(a);
   Serial.print(a);
   delay(5000);
   lcd.clear();
}

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What have you got Line ending set to in the Serial monitor ? Is it "Both LN & CR" by any chance ?

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Exactly right. This is very likely to be a CR LF issue.
char are just numbers, so you could filter our decimal values or 10 and 13 (cr and lf) or simply anything below 32.

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The serial monitor showed "abcd" normally, i make some research and i found that the Serial monitor uses CR and LF normally, but the lcd doesn't have such configuration. But still i don't know how to add this do the lcd

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Hello
Take a view here.

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