Re: cp1254 support for emf term

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

On Jan 10, 2008 6:39 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote:
>
> Of course it it is best to consult with someone who actually uses the
> encoding.  Are characters present in cp1254 but not in latin5 actually
> important to Turkish text?  Or is it just a case of MicroSoft fiddling
> around in contradiction to a standard used by the rest of the world?

I can only tell about the case of central european encoding: there are
two, cp1250 and iso-8859-2. They cover the same set of characters
(more or less), but the three characters we need are at different
locations, so it's important to be able to handle both.

Only: I have always found the built in encoding support of gnuplot a
bit problematic so far.

In the case of Postscript:
- it's almost a science fiction to figure out how to change a font
(not worth mentioning that OpenType and TrueType probably don't work)
- most fonts miss two characters needed for Slovenian
In the case of windows:
- lack of developers to fix the issue (Slovonian characters don't work there)
In the case of LaTeX:
- glad that nobody came to the idea of adding encoding support to the
latex terminal yet (what comes in, goes out, and that's just perfect
since one probably uses the same editor for gnuplot sources and LaTeX
documents)

But if it is of any use, I can send some patches (not before the end of month).

Mojca