Re: pm3d for emf terminal and point types

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

Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote:
> ...
> well, I had a quick look at unicode for emf. Apparently emf can only do
> UTF-16 (little endian). Implementing this is really easy when using
> iconv to convert to UTF-16LE. The drawbacks are:
>
> 1. will loose some characters, e.g. when converting UTF-8 to UTF-16.
>  =20

UTF-8 and UTF-16 are just two differents encoding schemes for Unicode,=20
i.e. the same range of characters.
iconv can convert from UTF-8 to UTF-16 without losing anything.

> This gives me the idea of rather having a terminal independent recode
> option like
>
>     set recode "from encoding" "to encoding"
>
>  =20
I agree with Ethan: I would rather use the locale mechanism to determine=20
the input encoding, deprecate the 'set encoding' command.
Then I would make gnuplot depend on iconv, and each driver could use=20
iconv facility to translate from the locale to its preferred format.

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e