Displaying 150 different custom characters on a 2-line LCD

[seme1]

I have a 2-line LCD (Powertrip pc1602f) that can only store 8 custom characters. I need to display the characters of a language other than English on the LCD (150 different characters) .

Is there any suggested way for handling this ?

[Ttelmah]

Buy a LCD with a different CG ROM....
The actual ROM is programmable on most LCD's at the manufacture stage. I have units here with Taiwanese fonts on them. Many units do contain some characters, covering things like Spanish and German accented characters in their extended character set (along with Greek and some mathematical symbols), from character number 0xA0 to 0xFF. You can order LCD's from the better manufacturers, with English/Japanese fonts, English/European, English/Russian, English/French, Taiwanese, and a few other options.

Best Wishes

[seme1]

Thanks for the fast response.
Can you please provide more details on where you got your units from ? or links to different manufacturers,, or what terms to use when searching google, or any other hints on how to find such LCDs..

Thanks again for your help.

[seme1]

I am still out of luck finding a manufacturer selling 2 line LCDs with bigger CG ROMs...

Could anybody please help ? or give some pointers to where I can find them ?

[mskala]

You probably won't find such a thing, since most are built to a 'standard'. The most I've seen is using the upper characters for Japanese. See newhavendisplay.com.

If you need 150 characters you may need a graphic LCD and do it yourself, which will take much CPU power.