Re: UTF8 encoding

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

Harald Harders wrote:
> 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 w=
ork
> with UTF-8 (and in fact it worked for me today at work) as long as you
> don't use characters above \377.

But aren't the umlauts "=E4=F6=FC" multibyte characters in UTF-8?  This is
at least what hexdump says to sample files.  And I can say
empirically that it doesn't work to just use UTF-8 scripts
containing umlauts with gnuplot -- at least with SuSE9.3.

> > 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.

Oh dear.  I have spent so much time on all this font/encoding stuff.
And I still feel like a complete beginner.  But thank all of you for
your explanations.


Juergen