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Hi all,

I'm interested in getting Chinese characters to display on an st7789 display but haven't I figured out how to do it yet. I have no problem printing out text in English. I'm using the following drivers with the Pico [/url]https://github.com/russhughes/st7789py_mpy[url]. I'm assuming either I need to download a font file or need to make my own but I'm not that advanced yet.

Thanks

You can convert a True Type font using the font2bitmap.py utility. The display driver is not currently unicode aware so it would require some modifications to make unicode fonts work easily. I will look into adding support for unicode fonts.

The write method now accepts UTF8 encoded strings. You will have to create a python font file containing the characters you are going to use with the font2bitmap.py utility. See the proverbs.py and proverbs_font.py files in the examples/T-Display folder for an example. UTF8 support is not optimized, but it is usable.

Thank you! I will take a look and give it a try.