Re: Chinese text in plots

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

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> 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...

Thanks, Ethan, this has saved me from wasting a good deal of time!

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University