Re: Chinese text in plots

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

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Allin Cottrell wrote:

>
> I'm trying to help someone who wants to get traditional Chinese
> characters into plots. This works fine for the gnuplot terminals
> that natively support UTF-8 (e.g. the pango/cairo based ones), but
> is not so easy with EPS and EMF.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this and have any pointers to
> share?  Thanks.

Definitely not possible in the current EMF terminal; it would have to
be re-written to use wide characters.

EPS is possible, sort of, but IMHO it is far too much trouble to be
worth it. Sketchy instructions for creating code mappings for PostScript
are in .../term/PostScript/unicode_maps.README.  This mechanism does
work, painfully, but it can only handle a limited number of character
codes.  Using it for CJK character sets is a nightmare.
My advice would be to use pdfcairo and then convert from PDF
to EPS afterward.

           Ethan


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