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By default, Gnuplot's X11 terminal does not support UTF-8 characters when displaying text labels or setting plot titles.
By default, Gnuplot's X11 terminal does not support UTF-8 characters when displaying text labels or setting plot titles.
To enable support for UTF-8, add the lines below to your {{Codeline|~/.Xdefaults}}.
To enable support for UTF-8, add the lines below to your {{Path|~/.Xdefaults}}.


<code>
<syntaxhighlight>
  ! gnuplot settings
  ! gnuplot settings
  gnuplot*font: mbfont:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-iso10646-*
  gnuplot*font: mbfont:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-iso10646-*
  gnuplot*encoding: utf-8
  gnuplot*encoding: utf-8
</code>
</syntaxhighlight>


To enable these settings, type the following command at the shell prompt.
To enable these settings, type the following command at the shell prompt.


<code>
<syntaxhighlight>
  xrdb -merge .Xdefaults
  xrdb -merge .Xdefaults
</code>
</syntaxhighlight>


To avoid having to type this command repeatedly, the command may be placed in your shell script resource file, {{Codeline|~/.profile}} for example.
To avoid having to type this command repeatedly, the command may be placed in your shell script resource file, {{Path|~/.profile}} for example.


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Revision as of 21:57, 13 June 2019

By default, Gnuplot's X11 terminal does not support UTF-8 characters when displaying text labels or setting plot titles. To enable support for UTF-8, add the lines below to your ~/.Xdefaults.

 ! gnuplot settings
 gnuplot*font: mbfont:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-iso10646-*
 gnuplot*encoding: utf-8

To enable these settings, type the following command at the shell prompt.

 xrdb -merge .Xdefaults

To avoid having to type this command repeatedly, the command may be placed in your shell script resource file, ~/.profile for example.