Re: Character encodings in PostScript driver

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > that any substantial fraction of them get hard-coded into gnuplot's
> > PostScript terminal driver.
>
> Fortunately there are only few supported until now.
> That could change if we really want to support all possible encodings.

And it could ease the addition of new encodings, even by users, without
recompiling gnuplot. The only additional requesite is that "set encoding"
should also understand strings as argument. Then, for example,
    set encoding 'privatenc'
loads the encoding file `privateenc.enc'. For the already known encodings,
a compatiblity mode should be preserved, i.e., they should continue to
work without quotation marks.

The only problem I see are 8.3 filenames. Is there still an operating
system that does not work with longer file names?

> I don't like new environmental variable. There is already GNUPLOT_LIB; an=
d
> also "set loadpath". That's enough.
[...]
> But that's simple: that ps header file should be in the same directory as
> gnuplot executable, or in GNUPLOT_LIB, or gnuplot_loadpath.

I fully agree.

Yours
Harald

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