Re: Make Gnuplot using the mathematical minus sign

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

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> On Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 15:33:15 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> In that spirit (and sorry for hijacking your
>> posting): I noticed that the %h and %H conversion
>> specifiers use an 'x' (letter x) and a '*' (asterisk)
>> to form numbers like 3.1 x 10^4.
>>
>> It would be lovely if they used the "multiplication
>> sign" (U+00d7) and the dot operator (U+22c5 - or
>> alternatively U+00b7) instead.
>
> gnuplot does in fact use a multiplication sign (U+00d7)
> if the encoding permits.  That covers almost all linux
> systems since the default encoding is UTF-8.  MSWin encoding
> CP1252 uses the symbol 0xd7, which I think is the same?
> I'm not sure what the default encoding is on OSX.

OS X uses UTF-8. These days only Windows is the odd man out.

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University