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Support more characters in protocol 6 (Beepwear Pro) #310

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synthead opened this issue Jul 27, 2023 · 0 comments
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Support more characters in protocol 6 (Beepwear Pro) #310

synthead opened this issue Jul 27, 2023 · 0 comments
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enhancement New feature or request protocol 6 Specific to protocol 6

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By using even higher values than the character indexes in CHARS_PROTOCOL_6...

CHARS_PROTOCOL_6 = "0123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!\"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~"

...as characters to protocol_6_chars_for...

def protocol_6_chars_for(string_chars, length: nil, pad: false)
chars_for(string_chars, char_map: CHARS_PROTOCOL_6, length:, pad:)
end

...it appears that there are more characters that can be displayed on the Beepwear Pro:

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However, with a high enough value, it appears to put garbage on the display:

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@synthead synthead added enhancement New feature or request protocol 6 Specific to protocol 6 labels Jul 27, 2023
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