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 octave, but latin1 is extremely outdated now, and octave users would 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 __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
