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

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 04:56, Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:26:17AM -0800, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > Another item on my emf wishlist is allowing UTF-8 character sets.
> 
> btw.: Can any terminals do UTF-8 at all?

- svg and wxt use UTF-8 by default
- libgd (used for png/jpeg/gif) uses UTF-8 by default if it is present
  in the current font.
	set term png font "arialuni"
- x11 uses UTF-8 so long as you put it in multi-byte mode and specify
  a suitable font:
	set term x11 font "mbfont:sazanami mincho,vera,20"
- The PostScript language itself is, so far as I know, not capable
  of handling multi-byte encodings. So we're out of luck there.
  However, I think Harald Harders has a patch for post.trm that 
  reencodes the single code page corresponding to the UTF-8 values
  for latin1 characters. That would at least get you the umlauts
  and accents.

I am not sure about other terminal types such as pdf, win and aquaterm.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742