Re: cp1254 support for emf term

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

On Thursday 10 January 2008 11:07, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >  
> 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
> - most fonts miss two characters needed for Slovenian

Heh. This is peanuts compared to the difficulty of using Japanese fonts.

> (not worth mentioning that OpenType and TrueType probably don't work)

Not true.  If anything, they are more likely to work than Adobe fonts
because they are more likely to contain Unicode mappings.  But unless
you embed the font in the document, you are at the mercy of whatever
the printer/viewer is configured to handle.
 
> But if it is of any use, I can send some patches (not before the end of month).

I'm not pushing for any patches in particular.  But I think gnuplot could
do better with internationalization, so I am happy to accept patches that
solve problems with internationalization.  As you say, internationalizing
PostScript output is close to hopeless. In fact it's completely broken in
4.2, as is svg. The situation in the CVS version is better, but still far
from perfect.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt