Antoine - Software therapistWhile I wait for the pcb of the prototype #LedMatrix I resurrected an old project involving an e-ink display.
I stopped it previously because I couldn't find a font big enough for the display with the symbols I needed.
I still could not find such a font so today I wrote a tool to convert a font to be used with #adafruit's GFX library :)
I made a small web ui for my TrueType font to #adafruit's GFX font tool: https://ttf2gfx.crafting-labs.fr/
And now that I can generate any font I want for my e-ink display, I can (re)start to work on it :)
(no worry, numbers are not real values :)
Just lost 3 hours to the charset encoding inferno: my source code is in UTF-8 but the library I use assume 1 byte per char.
Add to that, some font have only a subset of char.
You get a nice mix of UTF-8 char that may render nicely and or not (depending if the first byte is a char present in the font).
"Sometimes I wonder what's worse between charset encoding and timezones." says the guy who makes clocks and displays...