Gnuplot is an innocent bystander here.
The issue is entirely one of what font + font encoding is being used.
The Adobe "Symbol" font is one of 35 fonts that are part of the original PostScript standard. It uses a custom encoding that doesn't match anything else I know of. Here is a chart of the encoding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(typeface)
Other non-Adobe fonts named "Symbol" use different encodings.
The cairo terminals default to using UTF8 encoding. I honestly don't know how you managed to get either variety of "phi" by typing "f" to a cairo terminal. In unicode fonts, ϕ is codepoint 0D35, φ is 03C6.
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hi everybody,
maybe someone know how to enter φ (not ϕ !) in legend ? with:
/Symbol f
i just got a ϕ...
thanks for help!
chang
Last edit: chang 2013-09-09
/Symbol j
There are a few miscellaneous characters available this way; try
set title '{/Symbol qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM}'
Andy
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:28 AM, chang chang99@users.sf.net wrote:
Depends on your terminal (unfortunately).
pdfcairo: /Symbol f -> φ, /Symbol j -> ϕ
postscript: /Symbol f -> ϕ, /Symbol j -> φ
Quite weird :-)
Gnuplot is an innocent bystander here.
The issue is entirely one of what font + font encoding is being used.
The Adobe "Symbol" font is one of 35 fonts that are part of the original PostScript standard. It uses a custom encoding that doesn't match anything else I know of. Here is a chart of the encoding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(typeface)
Other non-Adobe fonts named "Symbol" use different encodings.
The cairo terminals default to using UTF8 encoding. I honestly don't know how you managed to get either variety of "phi" by typing "f" to a cairo terminal. In unicode fonts, ϕ is codepoint 0D35, φ is 03C6.