From e24dcf7d67762345d93b493171dfc104786bb10e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Vogt Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:28:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] added features of utf-8 descrption --- README.utf8 | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.utf8 b/README.utf8 index a9e398f58..92472e34e 100644 --- a/README.utf8 +++ b/README.utf8 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ use utf-8 for encoding of strings, this enables UNICODE international characters sets (of nearly any language) -in titles, labels, file and folder names. +in plot titles and labels, file and folder names. Windows uses utf-16 and conversion functions between utf-8 and utf-16, if access to Windows API functions is needed. @@ -14,12 +14,22 @@ ISO-8859-1/ISO-8859-15, that allows extended ascii. Better looking fonts are now used for labelling the axes. -Variables xbrushwidth and gridwidth (to be set e.g. in -.spiceinit) allow setting separately the linewidths of the -graph (xbrushwidth) and the grid (gridwidth). +Variables xbrushwidth and xgridwidth (to be set e.g. in +.spiceinit or directly before a plot command) allow setting +separately the linewidths of the graph (xbrushwidth) and +the grid (xgridwidth). Slight modification of the Windows GUI string window to enhance readability. Windows GUI is now more responsive during lengthy op calculations. + +UNICODE in Gnuplot and (limited) in Postscript are supported. +You will need to download and install gnuplot and a PS viewer +(e.g. ghostscript, gv or others). + +Input files to ngspice now have to be utf-8 encoded. ANSI +encoded files will fail (Notepad++ on Windows allows a simple +conversion). For an ANSI version of ngspice you have to +compile it with the configure flag --disable-utf8.