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Another update for the documentation.

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@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ We have two different technologies for the displays:
All of them have a similar but not identical symbol set at the positions 0 to 127 similar to US-ASCII.
On the other hand symbols at places higher than 127 have mayor differences.
Until now we know of (and support):
** 1.) HD44780 and similar with Kana charset A00 https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf Page 17
* 1.) HD44780 and similar with Kana charset A00 https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf Page 17
These are very common, but sadly not very useful when writing in European languages.
** 2.) HD44780 and similar with Western charset A02 https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf Page 18
* 2.) HD44780 and similar with Western charset A02 https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf Page 18
These are rare, but fairly useful for European languages. Also a limited number of Cyrillic symbols is available.
** 3.) HD44780 and similar with Cyrillic charset http://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=466 Page 14
* 3.) HD44780 and similar with Cyrillic charset http://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=466 Page 14
Some of our Russian friends use them.
At all of them you can define 8 different symbols by yourself. In Marlin they are used for the Feedrate-, Thermometer-, ... symbols
* Full graphic displays
@ -25,9 +26,9 @@ We have two different technologies for the displays:
Currently we deal with 128x64 Pixel Displays and divide this area in about 5 Lines with about 22 columns.
Therefore we need fonts with a bounding box of about 6x10.
Until now we used a
** 1.) Marlin-font similar to ISO10646-1 but with special Symbols at the end, what made 'ü' and 'ä' inaccessible, in the size 6x10.
** 2.) Because these letters are to big for some locations on the info-screen we use a full ISO10646-1 font in the size of 6x9.
** 3.) When we define USE_BIG_EDIT_FONT we use an additional ISO10646-1 font with 9x18, eating up another 3120 bytes of progmem - but readable without glasses.
* 1.) Marlin-font similar to ISO10646-1 but with special Symbols at the end, what made 'ü' and 'ä' inaccessible, in the size 6x10.
* 2.) Because these letters are to big for some locations on the info-screen we use a full ISO10646-1 font in the size of 6x9.
* 3.) When we define USE_BIG_EDIT_FONT we use an additional ISO10646-1 font with 9x18, eating up another 3120 bytes of progmem - but readable without glasses.
## The Languages
For the moment Marlin wants to support a lot of languages:
@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ We have two different technologies for the displays:
Other languages ether tried to avoid wording with their special symbols or ignored the problem at all and used the basic symbols without the accents, dots, ... whatever.
## The (partial) Solution
On a 'perfect' system like Windows or Linux we'd dig out unifont.ttf and some code from the libraries and they'd do what we want. But we are on a embedded system with very limited resources. So we had to find ways so limit the used space (Alone unifont.ttf is about 12MB) and have to make some compromise.
On a 'perfect' system like Windows or Linux we'd dig out unifont.ttf and some code from the libraries and they'd do what we want. But we are on a embedded system with very limited resources. So we had to find ways to limit the used space (Alone unifont.ttf is about 12MB) and have to make some compromise.
### Aims:
* 1.) Make the input for translators as convenient as possible. (Unicode UTF8)
@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ We have two different technologies for the displays:
## User Instructions
Define your hardware and the wanted language in 'Configuration.h'.
To find out what charset you harware is define language 'test' and compile. In the menu you will see two lines from the upper half of the charset.
To find out what charset your hardware is define language 'test' and compile. In the menu you will see two lines from the upper half of the charset.
* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_JAPAN locks like "バパヒビピフブプヘベペホボポマミ"
* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_WESTERN locks like "ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß"
* DISPLAY_CHARSET_HD44780_CYRILIC locks like "РСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ"