Unfortunately here the problem is that gnuplot cannot be linked against libreadline in Debian/Ubuntu because readline is GPL (see for instance /usr/share/doc/gnuplot/README.Debian). So instead gnuplot uses libedit which has poor support for non-ascii characters. There is a bug in Debian about improving the support, but it doesn't seem to have been looked at recently http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273002
Looking at a similar bug in postgresql (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608442) it seems as users we can workaround the issue without recompiling by using LD_PRELOAD. On my system, the following works (you would need to replace the path with the correct one on your system): LD_PRELOAD=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.6 gnuplot ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #273002 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273002 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #608442 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608442 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068815 Title: gnuplot 4.4 patchlevel 3 can't input international characters in interactive mode To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnuplot/+bug/1068815/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
