The maximum unique characters at any time would be 16.

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, David Instone wrote:

> You have got to be joking. Why would having a 16 character display obviously
> mean that you do not need the whole alphabet
>
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>         David Instone
>         Electronics Technician, Invetech
>         96 Ricketts Rd, Private Bag 44, Mt Waverley, Australia 3149
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>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   William Chops Westfield [SMTP:billw@CISCO.COM]
>         Sent:   Tuesday, 10 November 1998 11:26 AM
>         To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>         Subject:        Re: [OT]Inverse Charaters on LCD
>
>             Some LCD units alllow you to create your own charachters and
> store
>             them on the controller. This would only be helpful if you needed
> a few
>             charachters.  Not the whole alphabet though. I can chase up how
> it's
>             done and what you need if that helps??
>
>         Obviously, if you have a 16 character display, you do not need the
>         whole alphabet...
>
>         BillW
>