HD44780 Bars wiget displays accented y (&#255) character instead of bars

[anonymous]

The bar bars wiget displays accented y (two dots over it) character instead of bars, regular text appears fine on the display. The wiring I used is listed below but it should be the common winamp wiring. The display works perfectly in windows when used with Smartie (http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/) displaying bars and custom characters correctly.

I am using the following wiring. 1 GND 2 +5V 3 GND 4 Parallel Port pin 16 5 GND 6 Parallel Port pin 1 7 Parallel Port pin 2 8 Parallel Port pin 3 9 Parallel Port pin 4 10 Parallel Port pin 5 11 Parallel Port pin 6 12 Parallel Port pin 7 13 Parallel Port pin 8 14 Parallel Port pin 9

[anonymous]

Fixed with asc255bug not sure why it didn't work the first time I tried it.