Re: UTF-8 characters and gnuplot module

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hi,

This thread is a bit confusing to me, so if there is an actual
question to me, someone has to rephrase it (and keep in mind
that I have not used gnuplot in 'ages').

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> set ylabel "h\dochar {233}llo"

Should this not be

   set ylabel "h\\dochar {233}llo"

because of GNUplot's own double-quoted string parsing?
Independent of expansion in \startGNUPLOTscript, I mean?

Speaking as the maintainer of Metapost, assuming 'plain.mp':
you should be able to use UTF-8 in btex ... etex under the
following (narrow) conditions:

* you have set up the verbatimtex .. etex properly so that your
   macro package nows how to handle the UTF-8 input;
* your tex engine generates DVI files
* the resulting fonts that are used in that DVI are TFM-based.

For context, that would mean mkii pdftex with \enableregime[utf],
but in that case, you are much better off using \textext.

You cannot have UTF-8 in literal metapost label strings, because
Metapost only knows about traditional TFM fonts (single byte).

Best wishes,
Taco


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