> Also, much more importantly, I still don't understnad why
> flipping(reversing front to back) a linear polarizer over should EVER make
> a difference, as Bob indicated it was in his case.

Looking at the polarizer through a pair of Polaroid sunglasses, it appears
the polarizer is at a 45 degree angle, so flipping it upside down has the
effect of reversing the action.

I've made quite a mess of this LCD, but I might as well learn as much
about it as I can.

I had considered using the whole thing upside down, using a combination of
the 8 ram-based characters and also characters that are symmetrical, but
it seemed pretty wacky.

A thing I did try was to flip the LCD around on the PC board. It works,
but the display is a "5 x 7 with underline cursor" and when I flipped it
there was a gap between the upper(formerly underline) row of pixels and
the rest of the pixels. This did give me something to think about. I might
buy a large character display with 5 x 8 pixel array and try the same
thing(though I think I was very lucky to have an LCD with symmetrical
electrical layout).

-Bob