On 2010-11-04 15:05-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:48:06PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote:
>> @Andrew:  there is a question for you below.
>>
>> # latin1 encoding.
>> (Andrew, is there any reason to keep this octave source file any more?
>> The idea behind it is to approximately render latin1 characters from
>> octave, but latin1 is extremely outdated now, and octave users would
>> be much better off to use the default PLplot utf8 encoding for all
>> user strings.)
>>
>> __pl_pltext.m
>>
>
> This file was an attempt to convert various accented characters to something
> like a plplot equivalent. It dates back a long way to before we had drivers
> supporting unicode. It is not used by any other plplot octave functions,
> it is not documented anywhere except in the file, and in its current form
> it does not work. Looks like a candidate for removal!

Thanks for that advice.  Accordingly I removed that file as of
revision 11305.  This change does not introduce any regressions for
the "test_octave_psc" and "test_octave_xwin" targets.

Alan
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