gset replacement (encoding)

[Ben Abbott]

On May 8, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Goesele at hfph.mwn.de wrote:

>
>> The "encoding" part is not presently possible. If you can describe
>> why you're using it, perhaps there is another way, or perhaps we can
>> add what you need.
>
> I need it to be able to use my language (German, including Umlauts) in
> titles and lables.
>
>> To generate a postscript output, first create your plot ...
>
> So, I need to be able to do something like:
>
>    x = 0:0.01:5;
>    plot (x, sin(x), x, cos(x))
>    xlabel ("Höhe")
>    ylabel ("Längenmaß")
>    title ("Übung")
>
> This works on screen, but not in postscript.
>
> (Well, the labels don't make any sense here :-))
>
> Thanks a lot again!
>
> Andreas

ok, I don't think Octave is able to produce Umlauts.

Do you have sufficient experience with gnuplot to know what the side- 
effects of turning on encoding iso_8859_1 would be?

Ben