Why on LCD i cant get (£) or (€)? ($) is okay

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Hi,

Why on LCD i cant get (£) or (€)? ($) is okay. When I want LCD show £ or € for me showing strange things

Thanks in advance

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Because the screen can only show those symbols that are pre-programmed into its character generator.
But you can generate the necessary symbols yourself

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Thank you going to try now

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because the (£) and the (€) are multi byte characters in UTF-8 and most of the LCD Libraries can't handle them.

Have a look at my LCD library, it can print UTF-8 characters out the box as long as the character is available in the character ROM of the LCD.
For the (€) you can create a special character as already mentioned and enrich the functionality to print this character.

See:
Arduino: Noiasca Liquid Crystal Library with support of special characters (UTF-8)

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