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Re: \odot (latex), print and paste ☉ everywhere, and gnuplot?

From	Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject	Re: \odot (latex), print and paste ☉ everywhere, and gnuplot?
Date	2016-11-02 18:42 -0700
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edoardo.unali@gmail.com wrote:

> hi guys. I read all of guides on the net maybe and I wasn't benn able
> to put this symbol ☉ (sun, circle dot operator) in an axis label.
> Please, help me. I need it in a eps file or pfd file because after i'm
> going to import it in a latex file. I don't want to use a tex terminal
> in gnuplot. Please don't explain me how do it, but write here only
> codes i've to write on terminal. I just tried utf8 encoding, enhanced,
> pdfcairo.....etc.etc. Thank you very very very very very much if you
> solve this problem for me.


gnuplot> set encoding utf8
gnuplot> set xlabel "Suns ☉☉☉☉"
gnuplot> set x2label "Circle Dots ⊙⊙⊙⊙"
gnuplot> set term dumb size 60,12
gnuplot> plot x

                      Circle Dots ⊙⊙⊙⊙                      
  10 +-+----------+------------+-----------+--------*****   
   5 +-+          +            +           +********  +-+   
     |                             *********  x ******* |   
   0 +-+                   ********                   +-+   
  −5 +-+          *********                           +-+   
     +    ********+            +           +            +   
 −10 *****--------+------------+-----------+----------+-+   
    −10          −5            0           5            10  
                          Suns ☉☉☉☉                         


I used unicode U+2609 SUN for the x label
and unicode U+2299 CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR for the x2 label

Of course you want to use a pdf or png terminal rather than the
dumb terminal.  (*.eps will not work because PostScript does
not support utf8 encoding).

	Ethan

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\odot (latex), print and paste ☉ everywhere, and gnuplot? edoardo.unali@gmail.com - 2016-11-02 14:53 -0700
  Re: \odot (latex), print and paste ☉ everywhere, and gnuplot? Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 18:42 -0700
    Re: \odot (latex), print and paste ☉ everywhere, and gnuplot? Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2016-11-03 06:47 +0100

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