Hi,

Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>OTOH, if you are doing, say, messages or menus then you can probably
pick
>the words to use only/mostly the better represented characters.

I second this, I've had the same problem myself to convey an UI
with menu's /submenu's /parameters with only an 6 digit 7 segment
display.
If this is to be used by non-technical people (=3Dend users :) ) then =
shy
away from 'weird' coding, no-one will understand them anyway. Instead
choose
your text carefully, IMHO an word/text that is easily readable but
perhaps not 100%=20
accurate in context is much better than an correct word that uses 'odd'
segments.

/Tony

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