Can anyone help me resolve an annoying issue I am struggling to solve.

I simply want to display a '£' character on a ST7796S IPS display I have attached to a PicoMite RP2350B module (Peter's 64Pin DIL module). Using firmware V6.01.00b10

Connected to TeraTerm (via USB) and can use PRINT CHR$(163) to display a '£' character in TeraTerm.
However, no matter what FONT I use (and ideally needing FONT 3 for my application), when I use the TEXT.... command, I just see a blank character. Could be something to do with the ASCII value being greater than 128 maybe?

Love to hear from anyone who can help me display my '£' symbol using the TEXT command......

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Hi WW,
why do you think the pound sign is in the MMBasic character set?
Kind regards
Michael

The only currency symbols, AFAIK, are $ and €.
I think that's a job for embedded fonts.
Edited 2025-09-15 01:40 by twofingers

Here  the £ Symbol is &9C  CHR$(156)

  twofingers said  

Hi WW,
why do you think the pound sign is in the MMBasic character set?
Kind regards
Michael

The only currency symbols, AFAIK, are $ and €.
I think that's a job for embedded fonts.

At the command prompt (and connecting to PicoMite via TeraTerm), at the command prompt I can type PRINT CHR$(163) and the result is a ‘£’ symbol.
But when using TEXT…CHR$(163)  to be able to display it on the IPS module, I get a blank space.

Am I doing something silly (probably a limitation of CHR$ values greater than 127?)

  WhiteWizzard said  

  twofingers said  

Hi WW,
why do you think the pound sign is in the MMBasic character set?
Kind regards
Michael

The only currency symbols, AFAIK, are $ and €.
I think that's a job for embedded fonts.

At the command prompt (and connecting to PicoMite via TeraTerm), at the command prompt I can type PRINT CHR$(163) and the result is a ‘£’ symbol.
But when using TEXT…CHR$(163)  to be able to display it on the IPS module, I get a blank space.

Am I doing something silly (probably a limitation of CHR$ values greater than 127?)

From the manual:

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Font 3
16 x 24
All 95 ASCII characters A large font for HDMI versions and LCD panels.

Font 3 has only 95 characters!

The only characters for currencies, AFAIK, are $ and €.
Teraterm has its own (very different) character sets. They have nothing to do with what the LCD displays. It only displays what was received as an ASCII value.

@Martin: Thanks!

It's all very annoying. There is no £ sign (or euro, of course) in the "true" ASCII character set and there never has been - it only has 7 bits and there weren't enough character spaces. Whenever you see it displayed on anything computer related it's a kludge of some sort. :)

  Mixtel90 said  

It's all very annoying. There is no £ sign (or euro, of course) ...

I think Daniel (Amnesia) had a similar problem some time ago. It involved German umlauts. The solution might be interesting for WW.
Regards
Michael

With FontTweak you can produce any font and any code-page you desire.
Using escape sequences, you can store the extended characters in 'normal' strings.

The problem will be matching the same code page that users have chosen in their terminal program.

Jim