Re: UTF8 encoding

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 02:27 am, Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> A colleague just asked me how to use Umlauts with gnuplot on his
> box.  As he uses SuSE 9.3, the default encoding is UTF-8.  That
> isn't supported by "set encoding" yet.  

My machines all use UTF-8.  It works fine.
As I understand it (but I welcome correction if I'm misinterpreting),
the "encoding" in "set encoding" is relevant only to the 
characters represented in the low byte.  The whole point of
UTF-8 is that it extends this one-byte set by adding additional
bytes.  So UTF-8 coexists in parallel with "set encoding". 

> So my question:  Is it possible to add UTF to "set encoding"?  At
> least for the postscript terminal?

There is no need to.  It "just works". 
I can post some examples if you like, but really there is nothing
special about it other than making sure that the requested font
is in fact a UTF-8 font. UTF-8 (and other multibyte fonts) is
also supported by the png/gif/jpeg terminal and more recently by
x11. Hmmm. Maybe I really should add some examples to the demo
pages on the web site.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742