Re: bug in 5.4rc2 X11 terminal

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 09:04:32 PDT Dima Kogan wrote:
> Pieter-Tjerk de Boer <p.t...@ut...> writes:
> 
> > So, somehow, Debian's native gnuplot sets encoding to default even in
> > the C.UTF-8 locale, while 5.4rc2 only does that in the C locale.
> >
> > Thanks for the help; this provides me with sufficient ways to
> > circumvent the problem.
> 
> For what it's worth, my local environment is set to use C instead of
> UTF-8, which is probably why things consistently work here.
> 
> I tried to set the locale environment in various ways to reproduce the
> issue you saw, and I can't. IF gnuplot 5.4 has this issue with the x11
> terminal (requiring the user to explicitly turn off unicode), then I
> think we should fix it in some way.
> 
> But I can't reproduce the problem, so maybe there isn't anything to fix?
> Can anybody else see this issue?

Back when people cared about x11, the tools and fonts necessary to
set up utf8 support were maintained, albeit difficult to use.
Now I cannot get it to work at all.  I imagine it is still possible but
I cannot point to a recipe for how to do it.

I think the best advice is "don't use the x11 terminal".

	Ethan