Re: bug in 5.4rc2 X11 terminal

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> writes:

> 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".

Yeah, that's too bad, but I think we can do better than that advice
suggests.

I use the x11 terminal almost exclusively for one reason: it's
dramatically faster and lighter than all the alternatives. The
difference is very noticeable when X-forwarding or when repeatedly
replotting (interactively rotating a 3D plot, using feedgnuplot
--stream, etc).

So I really would like to keep this working reasonably. If we currently
have a unicode problem that makes tic mark labels render improperly, an
easy "fix" would be to not feed unicode to the x11 terminal. If somebody
has the time and motivation to fix it properly, that'd be awesome of
course, but just sending ascii across would solve the 99% case in the
meantime.

But I can't reproduce the issue in this report, and until that happens,
there's nothing to "fix".