Re: UTF-8 characters and gnuplot module

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>  > That's also right. Actually, "btex label etex" which calls TeX (in an
>>  > extremely inefficient way, among other things) is the one that doesn't
>>  > know how to handle them. It would be nice if someone from this mailing
>>  > list had at least some idea if that is solvable or not.
>>
>>  don't bother too much about these issues ... in mkiv things will be
>>  different
> 
> It was about plain metapost. Will your tricks also possible when
> running "plain metapost" (mptopdf)?

at some point mptopdf will use mkiv code

(in context mkiv i will provide multiple engines ..

\startMPgraphic[plain] ...

\startMPgraphic[metafun] ...

> Twice "wow" :)
> (After knowing the timings from the old-good-pre-sometxt times.)

btw, the latest textest already uses some of the same principles, but is 
slower since it still uses the external mp

Hans

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