[Bug 314023] Re: Gnuplot svg output is broken

[dominiko]

I tried this...

$ cat test-case.gnuplot
set terminal svg
plot sin(x) title 'utf-8 test ĉĝĥĵŝŭ (Esperanto diacritics)'

$ gnuplot test-case.gnuplot > test.svg

$ head -1 foo.svg  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"  standalone="no"?>

... and looking at test.svg with inkscape for example, I can see proper
accentuated characters (good)

However, I can't see the sin(x) function!?   (which is a bug in the svg
terminal of gnuplot it seems)

I also tried with the "png" terminal instead of "svg" and then utf-8 does not work.  I see garbage.
I need to to set latin1 title to see them properly. 

In gnuplot, when doing "help encoding", I see:
gnuplot> help encoding
 The `set encoding` command selects a character encoding.
 Syntax:
       set encoding {<value>}
       show encoding

 Valid values are
    default     - tells a terminal to use its default encoding
    iso_8859_1  - the most common Western European font used by many
                  Unix workstations and by MS-Windows. This encoding is
                  known in the PostScript world as 'ISO-Latin1'.
    iso_8859_2  - used in Central and Eastern Europe
    iso_8859_15 - a variant of iso_8859_1 that includes the Euro symbol
    koi8r       - popular Unix cyrillic encoding
    koi8u       - ukrainian Unix cyrillic encoding
    cp437       - codepage for MS-DOS
    cp850       - codepage for OS/2, Western Europe
    cp852       - codepage for OS/2, Central and Eastern Europe
    cp1250      - codepage for MS Windows, Central and Eastern Europe

 Generally you must set the encoding before setting the terminal type.
 Note that encoding is not supported by all terminal drivers and that
 the device must be able to produce the desired non-standard characters.
Press return for more: 
 The PostScript, X11 and wxt terminals support all encodings. OS/2 Presentation
 Manager switches automatically to codepage 912 for `iso_8859_2`.

Hmmm, it seems that gnuplot is not yet aware of Unicode, or at least it's not described in "help encoding".
Trying "set encoding utf-8" gives an error:

gnuplot> set encoding utf-8
                      ^
         expecting one of 'default', 'iso_8859_1', 'iso_8859_2', 'iso_8859_15', 'cp437', 'cp850', 'cp852', 'koi8r' or 'koi8u'

Shouldn't gnuplot look at the current locale anyway to decide what
default encoding to use?

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Gnuplot svg output is broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314023
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