Re: Partial support for Unicode in wgnuplot

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

> From: Bastian Märkisch 

> To: gnuplot-beta 
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/3/31, Thu 05:50
> Subject: Partial support for Unicode in wgnuplot
> 
> While gnuplot on Windows handles UTF-8 encoded files just fine, it 
> currently does not support Unicode input via the keyboard. The patch at
> 
>   https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/727/
> 
> aims to overcome that restriction.  It makes wgnuplot (not console mode 
> gnuplot) accept Unicode keyboard input.  Internally, it is converted to 
> whatever the currently `set encoding` is, which may be utf8.
> 
> The display code still wrongly assumes that all characters have equal 
> width, which affects command line editing. Also only code points  U+0000 
> to U+D7FF and U+E000 to U+FFFF are supported.
> 
> For testing purposes I have uploaded a 64bit binary build as zip package to:
> 
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/
> 
> Comments greatly appreciated!
> Happy testing,
> 
>    Bastian

Great Job!

I have done a quick test and reported to the patch ticket.

Tatsuro