title: Characters not properly displayed in serial monitor in arduino
body: <p>Can anyone tell me why the characters are not getting printed properly in the serial monitor of Arduino? I am pasting the arduino code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>#include &lt;SoftwareSerial.h&gt;
  
   #include &lt;LiquidCrystal.h&gt;
  
      // initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins
  
        LiquidCrystal lcd(12,11,5,4,3,2);
  
       int bluetoothTx = 15;
        int bluetoothRx = 14;
  
          SoftwareSerial bluetooth(bluetoothTx, bluetoothRx);
  
           int incomingByte;
  
           void setup() {
           pinMode(53, OUTPUT);
           Serial.begin(9600);
             lcd.begin(16, 2);
             lcd.clear();
             bluetooth.begin(115200);        // The Bluetooth Mate defaults to 115200bps
              delay(320);                     // IMPORTANT DELAY! (Minimum ~276ms)
               bluetooth.print("$$$");         // Enter command mode
               delay(15);                      // IMPORTANT DELAY! (Minimum ~10ms)
                  bluetooth.println("U,9600,N");  // Temporarily Change the baudrate to    9600, no parity
                  bluetooth.begin(9600);          // Start bluetooth serial at 9600
  
                  lcd.print("done setup");
  
                 }
  
                  void loop()
  
                    {
                      lcd.clear();
                       Serial.print("in loop");
                     //Read from bluetooth and write to usb serial
                      if(bluetooth.available()) {
                      Serial.print("BT here");
                      char toSend = (char)bluetooth.read();
                       Serial.print(toSend);
                          lcd.print(toSend);
                         delay(3000);  
                     }delay(3000); 
           }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone take a look into it. It does not print the character that I provide instead it prints something else like 'y' with 2 dots on top etc. Tried almost all the available solution.</p>