Re: Chinese text in plots

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

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> [W]hat if you encoded Chinese strings in a plot file as CP950? I
> notice that the symbol CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET (=136) seems to be
> defined in connection with EMF files. Gnuplot could support that
> quite easily, in the minimal sense of offering a "cp950"
> encoding option and, in case that is in force, setting the
> charset byte in EMF output to CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET.

This seems to work. I made an EMF file with this recipe, encoding
to cp950 and using a Big5 font:

set term emf font "AR PL Mingti2L Big5,12"
set encoding cp950

The Chinese characters display correctly using the freeware EMF
viewer eview.exe under Wine. (Unfortunately the EMF crashes
OpenOffice on Linux; I'm not sure whose fault that is.)

In case it's of interest I'm attaching my patch.

Allin Cottrell