Re: Make Gnuplot using the mathematical minus sign

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 15:33:15 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> In that spirit (and sorry for hijacking your
> posting): I noticed that the %h and %H conversion
> specifiers use an 'x' (letter x) and a '*' (asterisk)
> to form numbers like 3.1 x 10^4.
> 
> It would be lovely if they used the "multiplication
> sign" (U+00d7) and the dot operator (U+22c5 - or
> alternatively U+00b7) instead.

gnuplot does in fact use a multiplication sign (U+00d7)
if the encoding permits.  That covers almost all linux
systems since the default encoding is UTF-8.  MSWin encoding
CP1252 uses the symbol 0xd7, which I think is the same?
I'm not sure what the default encoding is on OSX.
The LaTeX terminals use \\times or \\cdot.

	Ethan