Inkplate UTF-8 text and fonts support

Customer:

Is there support for UTF-8 text?

I tried to use the U8g2_for_Adafruit_GFX library but since it needs the GFX library it conflicts with functions already included with the Inkplate GFX library and I can’t use U8g2_for_Adafruit_GFX.

Any ideas?

Originally submitted via email support on 10 December 2023. Migrated to the forum for community visibility.

Soldered Support:

Inkplate supports only ASCII characters in the Adafruit GFX library. If you need UTF-8 support, you will have to implement this yourself. A possible workaround is to render the text required to display as a monochrome bitmap image and then display that image where the text should be. It works surprisingly well.