Re: UTF8 encoding

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 08:48 -0700, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> My machines all use UTF-8.  It works fine.

Are you sure about this? I see two problems.
1) Inputting multibyte characters gives problems using backspace and/or
cursor keys to edit the command.

2) Actual output shows incorrect characters.

e.g.:

set xlabel "=E1=E2=E3=E4" font "Verdana"
show xlabel

        xlabel is "\316\261\316\262\316\263\316\264", offset at
((character units) 0, 0, 0), using font "verdana"

plot sin(x)

This has an xlabel that contains eight glyphs (and not 4), and does not
contain the correct symbols.

(note I'm trying to set the xlabel to contain greek characters in this
example)


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Robert Hart <en...@no...>
University of Nottingham


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