Hi! Today we will learn how to display Russian text on the M5 screen.

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This lesson will teach you how to connect and use a third-party library with support for Russian font in Arduino IDE.

Short help

"Fonts supplemented with Russian letters on the positions of 192-255 (windows-1251). Some fonts are supplemented by Superscript and subscript characters, as well as by the characters mmHg, °C...".

Author Oxy976 (GitHub).

List of components for the lesson

• PC/MAC;
• M5STACK;
• USB-C cable from standard set.

Let's start!

Step 1. Installing the library

Click on the link "Library" in the "Downloads" section (Fig. 2).

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Files to extract folder M5RUText-master rename it to M5RUText and copy C:\Users\USER_NAME\Documents\Arduino\libraries (Fig. 3).

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Perfectly. You can now connect the M5 to your computer, launch the Arduino IDE, and open the sketch (Fig. 4).

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Final step

That's all. :)

Downloads

• Library (Yandex.Disk): https://github.com/dsiberia9s/M5RUText
• Sketch (GitHub): https://github.com/dsiberia9s/Russian_language