accents in a plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:29 AM, youtwistedmymelonman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How could I use special characters (like accents) in a plot?
> When I use an accent in xlabel, for example, I get some weird  
> characters or
> garbage instead of the accent I was trying to type.
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there any workaround to this?
> In Octave 2.1.73 I was using
> __gnuplot_set__ encoding iso_8859_15
> as a workaround and it worked pretty well. But now this __whatever__
> commands seem to be deprecated...
>
> I'm using Octave 3.02 and my system default encoding is UTF8.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Manuel.

Hi Manuel,

Octave's developers are presently working toward compatibility with  
Matlab. As a result, the manner of adding accents used in 2.1.x will  
no longer work. At some point in Octave's future LaTeX/TeX syntax may  
be used to add accents.

Ben