Re: how to use iso-latin-2 with PS terminal

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

On Saturday 19 January 2008 17:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> I'm using Mac OS X and ...

> No, wait ... it's more weird than that. I'm trying to use these
> characters before issuing any other command (setting encoding etc.).
> These letters work "per-se". But they fail in one particular case:
> when I type normally, it works OK, but once I press left arrow (to go
> back in the line), it completely confuses gnuplot whenever I play with
> accented letters (multibyte) forth and back.

That sounds like a problem with the input stream.
Are you using gnu libreadline?  gnuplot's built-in readline?
No readline at all?  Given that this is OSX, we may have to
worry also that the library claims to be gnu libreadline but
is really BSD's editline in disguise.

All I can really say is "it works for me".


> I cannot read the line 
> any more, there is no connection betwen what's on the screen and what
> gnuplot sees. So I need to press [enter], then gnuplot complains about
> invalid characters (which I do not see), and then I may start writing
> from fresh again.
> 
> So: once I press left arrow and try to use unicode letters, it leads
> to really messy/buggy behaviour.

I understand.  But I don't think that is gnuplot's fault, except insofar
as it may be linked against a buggy libreadline.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt