From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Aug  7 07:44:49 1997
Subject: Re: Compatibility octave-gnuplot
From: Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich dot Leisch at ci dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
To: Michael Chelle <chelle at bcgn dot grignon dot inra dot fr>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:44:00 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 07 Aug 1997 13:25:31 +0100,
>>>>> Michael Chelle wrote:

> I'm using octave on UNIX-X11.=20
> Is there a possibility to use the character encoding  ISO-Latin1 in
> octave to set (gset) labels or key of a plot. ISO-Latin1 is usefull for
> us, european, mainly for accentuated characters.=20
> Gnuplot allows now this kind of encoding with the command  "set encodin=
g
> iso_8859_1".

> If I do "gset encoding iso_8859_1" in octave, there is no error message=
,
> but I can't write accentuated characters to set the label string.

> Is there a solution or is it a future improvement?

iso-latin1 characters work fine for me from within octave ... no
problem setting the main title or the key using german umlaute or
other accented characters.

e.g.:

octave:13> gset title "=E1=E9=ED"
octave:12> gplot x' title "=E4=F6=FC"

do exactly what i expect them to do.

best,
fritz