On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, yinung at Gmail wrote: > I found that if I use a shorter subsample, for example, running the > following script > > open djclose > smpl 1988/01/04 1989/12/29 > gf1 <- gnuplot djclose --time-series --output=display --with-lines > gf1.show > > By examining the gnuplot command, it seems ok as after editing > the gnuplot command: > > set xtics (....) > > After the "set xtics" command, there are some Chinese characters > which look correct. However, these Chinese characters are not > appropriately shown in the graph windows. I realize that this > might be caused by the translation of the GNUPLOT.
Are you editing the xtics specification in gretl's "Edit plot commands" window? If text looks correct in that window it will be in UTF-8. Towards the top of the file there should be a line "set encoding utf8" that tells gnuplot to do the right thing with such text. I'm not sure what's going wrong, but if you could email me the plot-commands file, as edited by you, maybe I can figure it out. You can save a copy using the "Save as" button in the editing window. (Of course, the Chinese characters will not display correctly if the font you have selected for plots in gretl does not contain the required glyphs, but I assume you have selected a suitable font.) Allin Cottrell
