Re: [Plplot-devel] Metafile questions

2015-03-02 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Mar 2, 2015, at 2:09 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > Hi Jim: > >> On 2015-03-01 21:33-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: >> >> Do we want to store unicode or non-unicode data in the metafiles? My guess >> is that unicode strings should be stored. > > No. Do nothing special in plmeta mode except to

Re: [Plplot-devel] Metafile questions

2015-03-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Jim: On 2015-03-01 21:33-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > Do we want to store unicode or non-unicode data in the metafiles? My guess > is that unicode strings should be stored. No. Do nothing special in plmeta mode except to store the raw null-terminated char array whenever such arguments appear

[Plplot-devel] Metafile questions

2015-03-01 Thread Jim Dishaw
Do we want to store unicode or non-unicode data in the metafiles? My guess is that unicode strings should be stored. If so, how should I handle unicode strings if the output device does not support unicode and wants to handle rendering text? The only two output devices that fall into this ca