Have you checked for an inadvertant Solder Connection between two of the
pins, this would
exhibit the qualities you have described, as the command codes may or may
not work, but the
character codes would probably never be correct.    I'm not questioning
your solder skills, I just
know that it has happened to me a few dozen times.

T HNX Jesse.

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