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Re: Encoding in Octave 5.0


From: Markus Mützel
Subject: Re: Encoding in Octave 5.0
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:33:05 +0100

Am 30. Januar 2019 um 23:19 Uhr schrieb "Pantxo Diribarne":
> Le 30/01/2019 à 08:37, "Markus Mützel" a écrit :
> > Am 30. Januar 2019 um 08:30 Uhr schrieb "Markus Mützel":
> >> Am 29. Januar 2019 um 18:02 Uhr schrieb "Chris Zheng":
> >>> Dear maintainers,
> >>>
> >>> I use Octave within Emacs under Windows 8.1 using Inferior Octave
> >>> mode. With version 4.4.1, the following code
> >>>
> >>> title('é');
> >>> print n.svg
> >>>
> >>> results in garbage content in the Figure window, but the right content
> >>> in the SVG file. However with version 5.0.90 downloaded from
> >>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/, the above code results in right
> >>> content on the screen but wrong content in the SVG file (the wrong
> >>> content is encoded in GBK which is my locale encoding). The code sends
> >>> to the Octave process is indeed encoded in UTF-8. I wonder what is
> >>> changed between 4.4.1 and 5.0, and what can I do to fix the problem.
> >> I can confirm what you describe with the 5.0.90 build on Windows 10: The 
> >> strings in the svg should be UTF-8 encoded. But they seem to be encoded in 
> >> Latin-1 (which is my locale encoding).
> >>
> >> Can you please open a bug report on savannah with your example?
> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave
> >>
> > Sorry. Please wait before opening a bug report.
> > I thought that .svg file creation no longer went through .ps (which has 
> > problems with non-ASCII characters). But it looks like it still does.
> > @Pantxo: I think you know the printing system better. Do you know which 
> > options would make this work for svg? Thanks.
> >
> > Markus
> 
> This is definitely a regression. Could you file a bug report so that we 
> can discuss this issue there?

I opened a bug #55612 here:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55612

Markus



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