Re: cairo and character encoding issues

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

On Nov 24, 2007 3:12 AM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> > * The function gp_cairo_get_encoding() doesn't work properly
> > unless the right encoding has been set explicitly by the user. The
> > fallback in that function is g_get_charset(), but this won't do
> > anything useful, in the sense of identifying the character set
> > actually in use on the given system, unless there has been a prior
> > call
> >      setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
>
> Isn't there one already?
> Or at any rate a call to setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")?
> When I enter gnuplot it correctly knows about the locale:
>
> lascaux [1235] ./gnuplot
>
>         G N U P L O T
>         Version 4.3 patchlevel CVS-21Nov2007
>         last modified Wed Nov 21 19:43:57 PST 2007
>         System: Linux 2.6.12-24mdksmp
>
>         Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007
>         Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
>
>         Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
>         The gnuplot FAQ is available from
>                 http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/
>
>         Send comments and help requests to  <gnu...@li...>
>         Send bug reports and suggestions to <gnu...@li...>
>
>
> Terminal type set to 'wxt'
> gnuplot> show locale
>
>         LC_CTYPE is en_US.UTF-8
>         LC_TIME is C
>
> But we have at least one bug report from somewhere who is having
> trouble getting gnuplot to pull LC_CTYPE from the environment, so I'm
> not really sure what is going on.

Here I have:

> locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="sl_SI.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="sl_SI.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sl_SI.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sl_SI.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sl_SI.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sl_SI.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="sl_SI.UTF-8"

(I set those in .bash_profile)

> gnuplot

        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.3 patchlevel 0
        last modified February 2007
        System: Darwin 8.11.1

        Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007
        Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others

        Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
        The gnuplot FAQ is available from
                http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/

        Send comments and help requests to  <gnu...@li...>
        Send bug reports and suggestions to <gnu...@li...>


Terminal type set to 'aqua'
gnuplot> show locale

        LC_CTYPE is C
        LC_TIME is C
        LC_NUMERIC is C

gnuplot>

Mojca