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Displaying text, 1 general, 2 the built-in character font – Matrix Orbital LCD0821 Legacy User Manual

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3. Displaying Text

This chapter describes the various text-display commands in detail. A quick reference summary of all text
commands is found in section 6.4.

3.1 General

Text is displayed on the LCD0821 using the built-in 5 x 7 dot matrix font (plus up to 8 user-defined
characters.

3.2 The Built-In Character Font

The LCD0821 includes a built-in 5 x 7 dot matrix font with the full range of ASCII characters plus a variety
of extended characters, as shown in Figure 3-1.

Figure 3-1 Character Set