Today's memory: that moment when I discovered a failing COCOT phone displaying Unicode.pic.twitter.com/5oHdylZDDf
That's not Unicode, that's the HD44780 ROM code A00 charset. It includes halfwidth katakana, some Greek, and some western diacritics in 8 bits :-) https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.pdf …
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Huh! Well then. I was sort of impressed that the display was showing the characters but that makes more sense now.
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Oh hey, that's the LCD display controller for which I wrote a tiny Raspbery PI ruby lib https://github.com/nsatragno/rpi-hd44780 … I remember having to do some magic to get ñ to display
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