Umlaut on Waveshare epaper

ESPHome
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Hi,

I want to display some information about the current track/artist/album, that is played on spotify/sonos. I’m able to extract the information by sensors and display them on my waveshare v2 epaper. I use esphome to integrate the display within home assistant. It works - but german umlaut won’t be shown. I guess it is a typically issue for german users but I found no information to solve it.

Can someone give some hints?
Thank you
Matthias

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In esphome you can choose which glyphs to display. Umlauted characters are not in the default, but you can add them. Display Component — ESPHome

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Thank’s a lot and it’s very easy. I’ve just added all required letters into the glyphs-section and it works. But it’s not enough to add the missing characters.

font:
  - file: 'fonts/Google_Sans_Bold.ttf'
    id: font1
    glyphs:
      ['&', '@', '!', ',', '.', '?', '"', '%', '(', ')', '+', '-', '_', ':', '°', '0',
       '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E',
       'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S',
       'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', ' ', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f',
       'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't',
       'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z','å', 'Ä', 'ä', 'Ö', 'ö', 'Ü', 'ü', '/']    
    size: 32
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Being an english speaker, I can’t help you any further. No umlauts in english, and my macron use for te reo maori is woeful.

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It got it with your help. I added my configuration just for completion

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OK but I wasn’t sure what you meant by this:

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First I added just ä, ö, ü in the glyphs section - this characters were shown. Except all other ones :laughing: So I added all characters I need.

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