HOW DISPLAY GREEK CHARACTERS??

[kostassite]

Hi,
When I listen music i use Windows Media Blogging Plugin to display infos about the tracks but when the track but when the track has greek ID3tags the lcd shows some unknown characters. I try the search and replace plugin to make the greek α --> english a. Works but the plugin support 20 choices and the letters are 24.
Help me

[limbo]

If you have the configuration for the plugin (working one), I will release a new version of this plugin with more than 20 lines supported. Lets say 30.
Is this OK with it?

[mattcro]

There are a couple of issues with extended character sets (ie many/all of the Cyrillic, Greek and other European accented characters) in Smartie.

Many LCDs do not have these characters in their fonts (mine only has a few accented characters, plus Japanese) so there's no way to display them other than by using custom characters (very limited and awkward).

Some Smartie plugins use Unicode (multibyte) character/string functions/variables internally and don't properly convert back to extended ASCII (single byte), which is what Smartie and LCDs use. So you get two (or maybe more) garbage characters on the LCD for every extended character that appears in a media track title for example.

A plugin that might help is Rafael's Supertroca - see http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=594
You can define a long list of characters and their replacements, similar to sandr but no 20 character limit, and I think it only works for single characters. If your LCD/VFD doesn't have some of the special characters, you can choose an ordinary Latin/English replacement (or anything similar that the display supports).

[kostassite]

If you have the configuration for the plugin (working one), I will release a new version of this plugin with more than 20 lines supported. Lets say 30.
Is this OK with it?

I make this which needs 31 but it doesnt work neither with the first 20.I need this with the wmpb plugin. If i write the title manual such as

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$dll(sandr,4,$dll(wmp.dll,4,0,0),replace.ini)

works fine with the not caps letter. I think i will need something else

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[Search2]
1=α
2=β
3=γ
4=δ
5=ε
6=ζ
7=η
8=θ
9=ι
10=κ
11=λ
12=μ
13=ν
14=ξ
15=ο
16=π
17=ρ
18=σ
19=τ
20=υ
21=φ
22=χ
23=ψ
24=ω
25=ά
26=έ
27=ή
28=ί
29=ύ
30=ό
31=ώ

[Replace2]
1=a
2=b
3=g
4=d
5=e
6=z
7=i
8=8
9=i
10=k
11=l
12=m
13=n
14=3
15=o
16=p
17=r
18=s
19=t
20=y
21=f
22=x
23=ps
24=o
25=a
26=e
27=i
28=i
29=i
30=o
31=o

[salaxi54]

Sorry to bring this topic up after so long, but i only just now registered..
Anyway, although the Greek character subject is of interest to me too, generally speaking, is there a way to add more fonts towards any plugin? I mean, supposedly talking about English characters, can they be changed by inserting a font file somewhere? If so, what type of fonts would be supported?
Thanks!