Escape char for "\" ??

ALIBE

Hi all,

please try this code below - ·the "\" char prints as "¥"

am I to "escape seq" the "\" char?

thanks, ALIBE

CON 
  _clkmode = xtal1 + pll16x ' use crystal x 16 
  _xinfreq = 5_000_000 

OBJ 
  lcd : "serial_lcd" 
  delay : "timing" 


PUB main | Cycle 
  if lcd.start(0, 19200, 2) 
    Cycle:=string("-\|/") 
    lcd.cls ' setup screen 
    lcd.backlight(1) ' backlight on 
    lcd.gotoxy(0,1) 
    lcd.str(Cycle)

Mike Green

Which LCD are you using? It may be that's the way the character is defined in the font table in the LCD.

ALIBE

Mike,
the parallax 2 line Serial LCD.

ALIBE

Mike, I just looked in the documentation. You're right, they don't seem to have a "\" but, instead "¥"

thanks for catching that.

So, is the only way to showing a "\" is by defining a DAT custom char?

ALIBE

I found in the doc that to display "\", we can send command "Dec 0" and of course using the custom char defn

thanks all

Mike Green

ASCII doesn't have any of the international currency symbols included in the character set, so many countries have used the less frequently used punctuation symbols for their currencies like the Yen, the Pound, Euro, etc. and "|" and "\" are often the first to go.