Re: bug in 5.4rc2 X11 terminal

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

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> For a long time now utf8 has been the default on linux.
> So I would expect that most linux users would have to deal with this
> when using the x11 terminal with their default locale.

It "just works" here. Xterm using utf8, gnuplot using utf8 (as 
everything should!). So the multiplication signs come out right on 
the axes if I do, e.g.,

set term x11
plot sin(x)*1.0e-5

The only slightly odd thing is what "show encoding" produces:

         nominal character encoding is default
         however LC_CTYPE in current locale is en_US.utf8

I'm not sure what the first line means, or what the force of the 
"however" is.

Allin Cottrell