Re: Re: encodings -- Re: pm3d for emf ...

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 12/13/06, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> If old files don't have set encoding, then they are not portable anyway.

That's not necessary true. I have dozens of .tex files which look like:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\input graph
\end{document}

Where "graph.tex" has been produced by cp1250-encoded .plt file (and
those files are fully portable and still backward-compatible; the main
problem with "backward compatibility" being the fact that I don't use
LaTeX any more ;).

I agree that encodings have to be improved in gnuplot, but please
don't break the old functionality too much.

For bitmap and PostScript terminals input/output encodings are very
important, but TeX-based ones have their own phylosophy. Trying to be
too clever when modifying their labels might unintentionally break
things.

Mojca