Re: can gnuplot do UTF-8 at all? [was: pm3d for emf terminal and point types]

[<tim...@en...>]

Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:26:17AM -0800, Ethan Merritt wrote:
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>> Another item on my emf wishlist is allowing UTF-8 character sets.
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>
> btw.: Can any terminals do UTF-8 at all? -- I took the habit of writing
> my gnuplot input files with latin1 encoding as I want to get special
> characters (as german Umlauts) displayed correctly in postscript.
> I couldn't get UTF-8 working in neither postscript nor X11. My locale i=
s
> set to UTF-8.
>
> Any ideas?
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The wxWidgets (wxt) terminal can do it. Its default behaviour is to take=20
the encoding from your locale. So when your locale is UTF-8 (mine is=20
fr_FR.UTF-8 for example), the utf-8 characters that you give on input=20
will be drawn properly.

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e