Re: UTF8 encoding

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

Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 21:37 schrieb Ethan Merritt:
> As I understand it, a single character glyph may have more than one legal
> representation in UTF-8.  So =C3=A4 =C3=B6 =C3=BC each have a one-byte re=
presentation
> (\344 \366 \374 if the encoding is iso8559-1 or iso8559-15) and also have
> a multibyte unicode representation (C3A4 C3B6 C3BC).

You are probably right.  But that doesn't help me as SuSE9.3 seems
to choose the latter ones.

> gnuplot> show locale
>
>         LC_CTYPE is en_US.UTF-8
>         LC_NUMERIC is C
>         LC_TIME is C
>
> gnuplot> set xlabel "=C3=A4=C3=B6=C3=BC"
> gnuplot> set term png
> Terminal type set to 'png'
> Options are 'nocrop font verdana 12 size 640,480 '
> gnuplot> set output 'test.png'
> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>
>   (output image attached)

gnuplot> show locale

        LC_CTYPE is de_DE.UTF-8
        LC_NUMERIC is C
        LC_TIME is C

gnuplot> set xlabel "=C3=A4=C3=B6=C3=BC"
gnuplot> set term png
Terminal type set to 'png'
Options are 'nocrop medium size 640,480 '
gnuplot> set output 'test.png'
gnuplot> plot sin(x)

But it may also be a missing font in gdlib.


Juergen