Re: cp1254 support for emf term

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Thursday 10 January 2008 11:00, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > 
> > If she's using an output mode that employs UTF-8 internally, what 
> > happens if she does "set encoding locale"?  Do the UTF-8 terminals 
> > then automagically get a correctly recoded version of the CP1254 
> > text? 
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, none of the gnuplot terminals do
> any re-encoding of the text provided by the user.  The purpose
> of the "set encoding" command is simply to tell the output device
> what encoding the text is already in.

No, see the mechanism in gp_cairo.c, which uses either the 
user-specified encoding, or g_get_charset() by default, to 
determine the source encoding, then uses g_convert() to convert to 
UTF-8 for use with pango.  (To answer my own question!)

Allin Cottrell