[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53646] Different character set in plot, in console and in the editor

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #53646 (project octave):

                  Status:               Need Info => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   4.2.2 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #2:

That is a known problem on systems where the default editor/system encoding is
not UTF-8 (can't find the most relevant bug report right now):
"Windows ANSI" encoding is basically the same as "ISO 8859-1" or "Latin-1".
The Command Window always uses UTF-8 encoding to be able to display all
Unicode characters.
The Command Window has its own problems in dealing with non-ASCII characters
(bug #47571). But if you mark the whole file content and hit F9 the é is
"correctly" encoded for the Command Window. But the strings in the plot will
show odd.

What Octave probably should do, is use UTF-8 internally as its string encoding
everywhere (and convert from whatever encoding is used in the editor/.m
files).

While this bug mainly affects Windows (which unfortunately doesn't support
UTF-8 as its system codepage), this problem arises on every system that has a
system codepage different from UTF-8.

Still present in dev.

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