Lesson 18. Russian language
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The purpose of this lesson
Hi! Today we will learn how to display Russian text on the M5 screen.

Figure 1
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).

Figure 2
Files to extract folder M5RUText-master rename it to M5RUText and copy C:\Users\USER_NAME\Documents\Arduino\libraries (Fig. 3).

Figure 3
Perfectly. You can now connect the M5 to your computer, launch the Arduino IDE, and open the sketch (Fig. 4).

Figure 4
Final step
That's all. :)
Downloads
- Library (Yandex.Disk): https://github.com/dsiberia9s/M5RUText
- Sketch (GitHub): https://github.com/dsiberia9s/Russian_language
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Don't working after updating library M5Stack. No russian forevermore?
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