Re: problem: gnuplot with libeditline

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

On Monday 01 June 2009, Ralf Juengling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After switching to Ubuntu Jaunty bi-directional
> communication with gnuplot did not work. The Ubuntu
> version is linked to libeditline. I then built gnuplot
> myself and linked against libreadline, and it worked
> (version 4.2.5). That's as far as I tracked it.

Could this be the same problem that we recently learned of -
that editline cannot handle multibyte characters, including UTF-8?
If you still have the Ubuntu binary around, you could try
wrapping it in a a script that sets the locale to C.