Re: How to add non-English characters to figures

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

2011/12/5 Weipeng He <address@hidden>:
> I want to add a Chinese title or other labels to a figure. Commands are like
>
> title("标题“)
> text(0,0,"标签”)
>
> However, I get only garbled characters on the figure with the following
> warning
>
> warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character `�'
>
> Is there any solution I can get it work?
>
> Thanks~
>
>
> Some additional information:
>
> Octave Version is 3.4.3
> graphics_toolkit is gnu-plot
> System is Fedora 15
>
>
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If it is only a few figures you could produce an SVG output and add
the labels with Inkscape, manually.

Otherwise you could try to use psfrag in Latex and replace placeholder
labels like "LabelX", "Title", "LabelY" with your characters.

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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
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