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This is even nearly always the case with actual 1x16 LCD's.
Is this a bug of PROTON?
Not at all. This happens because all alpha LCD's, although being quite looking the same, do not necessarily use the exact same controller.
PROTON expects a HITACHI 44780 controller. But some manufacturers used a slightly different type of controller, or use a 2x16 controller to build 1x16 LCD's. In this case, the 8 first characters are viewed as LINE 1 and the 8 next are viewed as LINE 2 as the mapping of the characters displayed on the screen is not the same as the original one.
Do not discard this type of LCD. They work fine. The solution resides in a slight adaptation of your code.
Example Code
' Example of 16 caracters displayed on a 'strange' LCD
'First declare them as 2 lines:
DECLARE LCD_INTERFACE 4
DECLARE LCD_LINES 2
DECLARE LCD_DTPIN PORTB.0
DECLARE LCD_ENPIN PORTB.4
DECLARE LCD_RSPIN PORTB.5
'Then manage to print your data on two lines of 8 characters:
PRINT AT 1,1, "12345678"
PRINT AT 2.1, "ABCDEFGH"
'This will display: "12345678ABCDEFGH"
'First declare them as 2 lines:
DECLARE LCD_INTERFACE 4
DECLARE LCD_LINES 2
DECLARE LCD_DTPIN PORTB.0
DECLARE LCD_ENPIN PORTB.4
DECLARE LCD_RSPIN PORTB.5
'Then manage to print your data on two lines of 8 characters:
PRINT AT 1,1, "12345678"
PRINT AT 2.1, "ABCDEFGH"
'This will display: "12345678ABCDEFGH"
Using PDS with SPI GLCD based on ST7565R Controller
Graphic LCDs based on the ST7565 are cheaper then GLCDs with other controllers. SPI requires only four pins. If the circuit