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gnuplot package

  1. Bug #1068815
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1068815

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Jason Conti (jconti) wrote :

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