Re: Encoding in Octave 5.0

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/29/19 12:02 PM, Chris Zheng wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thank you for your work,
>
> Chris

Can you tell us exactly how you got this code into Octave?

title('é');
print n.svg

Is this in a *.m file you are editing in Emacs? Or is it something you 
pasted into the inferior Octave buffer? If it's a *.m file, did you 
copy-paste that é in, or use a Unicode-entry keyboard sequence? The 
input mechanics might matter here.

If it's in a *.m file, could you attach a copy of that .m file for us to 
examine?

And how did you install your Emacs? I'll try to reproduce if you can 
tell me what setup you have.

Cheers,
Andrew