Re: Character encodings in PostScript driver

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

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > should also understand strings as argument. Then, for example,
> >     set encoding 'privatenc'
> > loads the encoding file `privateenc.enc'.
>
> It should still be "set encoding <encoding>", just the postscript driver
> should load its encoding from a corresponding file. Other terminals work
> differently.

This is true, of course. But I still like the idea to be able to add new
encodings by providing a new encoding file.

> I think that file could be a collection of files like in a2ps/encoding
> directory.
>
> In order to save disk space, it could be a single file gzipped? (Gnuplot
> linked with libz (needed for libgd et al anyway) can read them directly.)

I prefer single files. It is easier to maintain these.

> > The only problem I see are 8.3 filenames. Is there still an operating
> > system that does not work with longer file names?
>
> DOS is no longer supported in gnuplot beyond 4.0.

That makes things easier.

Yours
Harald

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