Re: UTF8 encoding

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

J=FCrgen,

> 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.  So I had to refer to latin1,
> ps_guide.ps and all the funny "\340" octal codes.  That's of course
> far from being convenient.  A more convenient workaround would be to
> switch the encoding within emacs for gnuplot files, but...

If I remember correctly, the low byte of UTF-8 is identical with either
latin1 or latin9. Thus, using =BBset encoding iso_8859_1=AB should also wor=
k
with UTF-8 (and in fact it worked for me today at work) as long as you
don't use characters above \377.

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

Postscript can only handle 255 characters per font encoding. Thus, it does
not work with UTF-8. It may be possible to add a second and third encoding
that contains the encoding vectors for UTF-8 fonts. Thus, 255 characters
will be put into one font. E.g., /Times-Roman, /Times-Roman-1,
/Times-Roman-2. But this is just theoretical, not yet implemented in
gnuplot.

Best regards
Harald

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Harald Harders
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