Displaying german characters, ß ä ü ö etc

[gazz]

Plaing with lcd smartie and a 40 x 2 lcd from a ticket printer off a bus,

The idea is to get the info from a bus driving sim's virtual ticket machine's lcd, and have it shown on the lcd of the real ticket machine,

i'm using one of the lcdmodkit usb boards for now, but will prolly use the arduino mega i'm getting for me birthday in a few weeks as i need to interface the machines buttons too.

The bus sim is german, (called omsi if anyones interested) you can install it in english, but the street names, tickets and so on are german, as your driving around berlin to start with,

This means the text on the lcd's are in german, an i'm having trouble getting my real lcd to display the german letters with umlauts (ä), and the double S symbol (ß).

They are in the lcd's rom chips, but typing a german charected in lcd smartie dosent result in the right charecter going to the lcd,
i have found the ß symbol by entering $Chr(4322) and the ä with $Chr(4321)

i'm hoping to get a dll which will read the text thats on the virtual lcd, and mirror it on the real one, not sure how to do that yet, but if i can't display a ß when typing one, then i imagine the dll will have the same problem.

Anyone know a way round this, if it is even a problem and so on.

[limbo]

You may try this: http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic. ... ace#p15306