I need to write scrolling text in the Arabic language, and it seems that it is not supported by the program. Is there any way to type a specific language on the led?
This has been asked a few times. But no. The map of which pixels are on/off for each character at each font size is compiled into the WLED binary. We’d exhaust all the space trying to support all characters even at one size.
@blazoncek if there were a web service that provided the bitmap for Unicode characters. Something like this
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The problem is twofold: RAM size and flash size.
For ESP8266 it lacks RAM, for ESP32 its flash utilization is nearing 95% leaving no room for additional content.
It would be possible to upload a file containing font definition to a file system but it would be difficult to correctly select it from UI.
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I know, it’s a old topic. But… There is no way to remove some effect, and recompile? Create some variables to enable/remove what we want. The fact that we can’t use text scrolling like we want, only because of the size of RAM, or flash.. is weird. We should be able to remove everything that is not necessary, and keep only text scrolling. Adding whatever Font we want (such as Arial.ttf) and whatever characters we want…
That’s not the goal of compiling? Use variables to add/remove things that we want or not?
There are so many topics about that, and the only answer is: ASCII Characters only!!.. I just don’t understand, there is no way…
You can always fork, modify and use whatever you want.