Why Matlab does not show the special characters (e.g.: 'ç' or º)

Hello people,

My problem is, when I try to put special characters in matlab, it never shows the correct character.

e.g.: legend('Estação') is shows EstaÃSÃSo

What should I do ?

[Açmae]

What is the character you are trying to write? Use the function CHAR() and use the extended ASCII code for the letter in question.

http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/extended-ascii-code/cedilla-ascii-code-247.html

For instance:

>> char(231)

produces ç

Hence

>> strcat(['Esta' char(231) char(227) 'o'])

Produces

Estação

[Daniel Shub]

@Açmae MATLAB on Windows does not support extended ASCII.

[Arthur Melo]

@Açmae Thank you, it works so good. But it is a way to improvise. I want to fix this problem!!

Thank you very much!!

[Arthur Melo]

@Açmae It works with letters but with symbols it doesn't work. Example: 167 --> º

>> char(167)

ans =

§

I don't know why :/

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Your example works for me on OS-X. What OS are you using? What font are you using?

Note: There is a different issue, which is that Unicode character positions beyond 255 will not work in MATLAB.

[Arthur Melo]

I'm using Linux-Ubuntu. The font is UTF-8, I've tried changing it to ISO but It don't work. What can I do ?

[Daniel Shub]

@Arthur, have you seen this question? Are your fonts working in general?

[Arthur Melo]

I'm not understanding you. What fonts ?

[Daniel Shub]

@Arthur can you change the size or type face of the font (e.g., in the legend or title)?

Answer 2

[Daniel Shub]

You may want to see this question. It appears that on Windows the windows-1252 character set is used while on Linux (and Mac) a different character set is used. As a work around you might be able to use the TeX/LaTeX interpreter.

legend({'Esta\c{c}\H{a}o'}, 'interpreter', 'latex')

Note that the {} around the string is needed in order to pass PV pairs (although the documentation is a little unclear about this).