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The set encoding command selects a character encoding.
Syntax:
set encoding {<value>} set encoding locale show encoding
Valid values are
default - tells a terminal to use its default encoding iso_8859_1 - the most common Western European encoding prior to UTF-8. Known in the PostScript world as 'ISO-Latin1'. iso_8859_15 - a variant of iso_8859_1 that includes the Euro symbol iso_8859_2 - used in Central and Eastern Europe iso_8859_9 - used in Turkey (also known as Latin5) 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 cp950 - MS version of Big5 (emf terminal only) cp1250 - codepage for MS Windows, Central and Eastern Europe cp1251 - codepage for 8-bit Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian cp1252 - codepage for MS Windows, Western Europe cp1254 - codepage for MS Windows, Turkish (superset of Latin5) sjis - shift-JIS Japanese encoding utf8 - variable-length (multibyte) representation of Unicode entry point for each character
The command set encoding locale is different from the other options. It attempts to determine the current locale from the runtime environment. On most systems this is controlled by the environmental variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG. This mechanism is necessary, for example, to pass multibyte character encodings such as UTF-8 or EUC_JP to the wxt and pdf terminals. This command does not affect the locale-specific representation of dates or numbers. See also set locale and set decimalsign.
Generally you should set the encoding before setting the terminal type, as it may affect the selection of fonts.