[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33155] text function fails to display degree symbol

[Rik]

Update of bug #33155 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Confirmed on a recent development branch tip (2011/05/14).  This is annoying,
but probably won't get fixed immediately.  My guess is that it is an
interaction between how your command window is encoding characters (maybe
UTF-8) and how Octave expects them.

For a temporary workaround, try constructing strings using the hex or decimal
value of the special character you are trying to use.  For example, the degree
symbol has a decimal value of 176 so the following works:


graphics_toolkit gnuplot
plot (1:10);
str = ["100", char(176), " Celcius is 212", char(176), " Fahrenheit"];
ht = text (2,6,str);


This will only work with gnuplot.  The FLTK toolkit won't work even with this
approach.


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