Hello,<br><br><br>I am trying to make my lcdproc work with some greek characters on an imon lcd . For anyone unfamiliar with it, this LCD is not working with text, but drawing on a grid of 6x8 per character. For more information please see <a href="http://codeka.com/blogs/index.php/2007/09/26/imon_lcd_patch_v0_3?blog=5">http://codeka.com/blogs/index.php/2007/09/26/imon_lcd_patch_v0_3?blog=5</a> <br>
Quote from the patch:<br><br>+/*<br>+ * The iMON LCD doesn't have a "text mode" -- everthing is pixel-based. So we need to define<br>+ * our own font, basically. This structure holds the definition of that font. The characters<br>
+ * we define here are 6x8 pixels in size, each byte in the 'pixels' array represents one column<br>+ * of pixels. The most significant bit is the top row, the least significant bit is the bottom<br>+ * row.<br>+ */<br>
<br>Trying to produce my own greek fonts this way i took the simple example of capital O<br>+ { 'O', { 0x0, 0x7C, 0x82, 0x82, 0x82, 0x7C } },<br>and produced<br>+ { 'Θ', { 0x0, 0x7C, 0x92, 0x92, 0x92, 0x7C } },<br>
<br>Various tests have shown me that what I have done there, works. But there seems to be a big but: I can not include any greek letters in my LCDd.conf. <br>I have cross checked this by changing the code in pre-compile time to:<br>
<br>+ { 'O', { 0x0, 0x7C, 0x92, 0x92, 0x92, 0x7C } },<br>+ { 'Θ', { 0x0, 0x7C, 0x92, 0x92, 0x92, 0x7C } },<br><br>so that both these characters are drawn like the letter Θ.<br><br>and added a simple goodbye message in my LCDd.conf (my simple failsafe way of testing this) that contained OOOO and ΘΘΘΘ. This resulted in only the OOOO being printed (as ΘΘΘΘ of course).<br>
I was thinking that maybe the deamon expects its conf file to be in plain english, so i wrote a small perl script that did quite the same (just in case I was missing something)<br><br>All these tests of course only confirmed what most of you already know (and my google searches had told me -but I was still hoping) : there is no way to send non-latin characters to LCDproc and get them out alive, right?<br>
<br>Is there anything I am missing?<br><br>I am not a code expert but if someone feels like giving me a hint, maybe I could take it one step further.<br><br><br>My problem is - just in case I didn't make myself clear (it happens when I overthink)- that even though I have the ability to draw the desired characters, they get lost in translation :) How do I efficiently feed LCDproc/myscreen with my non-static greek text ( I mean, it's not a static menu that I can once and for all transcode) withouth using a "wrapper" for any app that will be sending greek chars. <br>
<br>Any help will be greatly appreciated.<br><br>Also, though I should mention the note on the patch mentioned above:<br><br>The 'ch' member is an int so theoretically, you could<br>+ * specify UTF-32 code points as the ch. But then you'd have to translate the UTF-8<br>
+ * (or whatever) input to imonlcd_string to UTF-32, which doesn't sound like much fun...<br><br>This "theoretically" part doesn't sound very promising,does it<br><br><br><br>Thank you very much in advance,<br>
<br><br>Dialecti<br>