Umlauts (or other 'special' characters) in plots?

[Thomas Ilnseher]

Am Mittwoch, den 05.12.2007, 15:40 +0100 schrieb David Bateman:
> Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > Is there a way to print umlauts or other 'special' characters in plots?
> >
> > For example, the following gives poor results (with Octave 2.9.17 and 
> > gnuplot 4.2 on Ubuntu 7.10.):
> >
> > --------
> > octave:1> plot(rand(1,10))
> > octave:2> xlabel('Kräuter')
> > octave:3> ylabel('Rüben')
> > --------
I tested it, and it seems that gnuplot expectes iso8859-1  strings.
setting the terminal encoding to iso8859-1 (or -15) helped, although 
there are funny effects during typing. I think this Quick-and-Dirty 
function might help you:

(attached)

Tom

Thomas Ilnseher <ilnseher at eit.uni-kl.de>
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