Re: minus sign implemetation on sjis

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

> From: sfeam 

> To: gnuplot-beta; Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/8/12, Fri 13:30
> Subject: Re: minus sign implemetation on sjis
> 
> On Friday, 12 August 2016 09:59:04 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> 
>>  set minussign is a very nice new feature!
>>  This is what I want to use for a long time!
>> 
>> 
>>  In sjis encoding, minussign code is 0x817c.
>>  This is a Japanese Kanji character with wide width.
>> 
>>  >From Ethan suggestion, I tried this in windows, qt, and wxt.
>>  Looking are not good compared to those on utf8.
>> 
>>  In my opinion, it is better that this feature is not implemented in sjis 
> encoding.
>>  Utf8 is now widely used even on windows in Japanese. 
>> 
>>  Therefore Japanese people who want to use this feature will use utf8 
> encoding 
>>  if this feature will dropped on sjis encoding.  
> 
> OK. I will disable the character mapping for SJIS and add a comment explaining
> that the half-width/full-width nature of the Japanese character set makes the
> special minus sign look bad.
> 
>>  In addition using this option in sjis encoding, + character represent half 
> width while  
>>  - character represent full width.
> 
> The "set minus" command only affects the unary minus,
> that is, the character in front of a negative number.
> It does not affect the arithmetic operation symbol for subtraction.
> 
>     thanks for testing,
> 
>         Ethan
> 
> 
>> 
>>  Tatsuro

I have confirmed that cvs source tree has been revised and confirmed that
"set minussign" does not affect gnuplot behavior if the encoding is SJIS.

Thanks a lot.

Tatsuro