LcdCharacterEncodingFactory.SpecialLettersForCulture Method

Definition

Namespace:

Iot.Device.Graphics

Assembly:

Iot.Device.Bindings.dll

Package:

Iot.Device.Bindings v3.0.0

Returns the set of special characters required for a given culture/language. This may include diacritics (ä, ö, ø), currency signs (€) or similar chars. If any of the returned characters are not found in the ROM map, CreateLetter(Char, String) is called to obtain the pixel representation of the given character. A maximum of 8 extra characters can be added to the ones in the ROM.

protected virtual string SpecialLettersForCulture (System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<char,byte> characterMapping);

abstract member SpecialLettersForCulture : System.Globalization.CultureInfo * System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<char, byte> -> string
override this.SpecialLettersForCulture : System.Globalization.CultureInfo * System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<char, byte> -> string

Protected Overridable Function SpecialLettersForCulture (culture As CultureInfo, characterMapping As Dictionary(Of Char, Byte)) As String

Parameters

culture

CultureInfo

Culture to support

characterMapping

Dictionary<Char,Byte>

The character map, pre-loaded with the characters from the character ROM. This may be extended by explicitly adding direct mappings where an alternative is allowed (i.e. mapping capital diacritics to normal capital letters É -> E, when there's not enough room to put É into character RAM.

Returns

String

A string with the set of special characters for a language, i.e. "äöü߀ÄÖÜ" for German