I'm not a windows user any more, but isn't it possible to generate extended chars up to 255 by doing right alt + num, ie alt + 254. This should generate a non-printing char and hopefully send 0x254 across the serial port (hyperterminal should be able to work without line buffering, I believe)

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Thanks! I'm guessing it's probably a posix tty setting I can change (I'm doing this in python), I'll look into it further.

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greetings from australia :-) i'm currently having some troubles setting custom characters on my newly acquired LCD (which i'm very happy with, otherwise). the problem seems to be with specifying 10 (0x0A) as one of the bytes. other numbers work - 8 yields a single dot, for instance, and 9 works as e...